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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[Cf. L.

deductivus

derivative.]

Of or pertaining to deduction; capable of being deduced from premises; deducible.

All knowledge of causes is

deductive

Glanvill.

Notions and ideas . . . used in a

deductive

process.

Whewell.

Adj.

Deducible; that is or may be deduced from premises.

All knowledge is deductive.

See also: deductive

déductive