The education system that most of us have grown up with teaches logical, deductive thinking.
Smith's scientific method is considered by some to have been purely deductive.
Earlier, we saw that children have more difficulty with deductive explanations than with empirical explanations.
Moreover, the usage of a purely mass-memory evaluation strategy improves previous deductive systems, eliminating, in practice, any limitation in the dimension of the input data.
Any deductive discipline based on such a system is a definite discipline or, in the pregnant sense, one which is mathematical.
To save space, we focus here upon deductive reasoning, and specifically upon syllogistic reasoning.
On this program, the axioms of arithmetic were theorems of deductive logic and thus regarded as known by inference from the axioms of logic.
Principal parts identify the class of non-exemplary items and thereby determine which paradigm will serve as a deductive pattern.
