DEDUCTIVE Synonyms

• occurring with or following as a consequence

• relating to or having the nature of illation or inference

• of reasoning; proceeding from general premisses to a necessary and specific conclusion

• resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference

• derived or capable of being derived by inference

• based on interpretation; not directly expressed

• capable of or reflecting the capability for correct and valid reasoning

• marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts

• based on known statements or events or conditions

• capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner

• based on exact thinking

• consistent with or based on or using reason

• capable of being expressed as a quotient of integers

• an integer or a fraction

• of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind

• having its source in or being guided by the intellect (as distinguished from experience or emotion)

• thinking that is coherent and logical

• endowed with the capacity to reason

• of or relating to or consisting of syllogism

• in logic, the formal analysis of logical terms and operators and the structures that make it possible to infer true conclusions from given premises.

• reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)