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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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There are several different forms of deductive reasoning, as used in different forms of reasoning problems.
The 75 others had to do with reading comprehension and deductive reasoning.
These computational models are naturally adapted to the deductive reasoning but, as such, are not adapted to other forms of reasoning.
Let it be granted, then, that there is no such simple method of transforming inductive into deductive reasoning.
Stop Count Olaf's horrid reign with fire, snake bites, leeches, and other wieldy machinations in this game of deductive reasoning.
Mathematics in its widest signification is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.

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