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What does deductive reasoning mean?

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  1. Inference in which the conclusion cannot be false given that the premises are true.
  2. Inference in which the conclusion is of no greater generality than the premises.
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The 75 others had to do with reading comprehension and deductive reasoning.
Geographic generalizations can be made using inductive reasoning or deductive reasoning.
Mathematics in its widest signification is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.
Bellin says that deductive reasoning will take one a fairly long way in poker.
Let it be granted, then, that there is no such simple method of transforming inductive into deductive reasoning.
To find the right solution, it is often necessary to use deductive reasoning.

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