deductive

deduce | American Dictionary

deduce
verb[ T ]
us/dɪˈdus/
to reach an answer by thinking about a general truth and its relationship to a specific situation:
[ + question word ]In an attempt to deduce what happened to the jet, investigators are looking at other similar planes.

Examples of deduce

deduce
But it would prove impossible to deduce a physical theory from such purely formal theorems.
We can only deduce, but never directly perceive, any ' symbolic representation ' that exists in the mind.
Can we deduce from it that inherently ambiguous stimuli always get resolved one way or the other?
For while particular statements can be deduced from general laws, there is no equally epistemically-safe procedure in the reverse direction.
The main advantage of this method is the transparency of agent behavior as decisions can be easily deduced from the data provided.
It is significant that this action-effect model can deduce that closing a valve will block an existing flow.
Another demonstration that political behaviour cannot be deduced from an objectivist account of economic class position might seem redundant.
The effects of various dampings on the threshold of the gravitational instability can be deduced by numerical solutions of (26) and (27).
The main frequency of the virtual cathode is also deduced.
Rather than trying to deduce arbitrary practices from some general psychosocial principles, we must look at the social functions that particular conventions serve.
The protein kinase family : conserved features and deduced phylogeny of the catalytic domains.
This enables us to deduce the desired results from their classical counterparts.
The constructions, whose ungrammaticality learners have to deduce, will not occur in the naturalistic input.
In particular, we deduce that d vanishes nowhere.
The value of the corona inception voltage is readily deduced from the corresponding experimental data.
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