Bret Weinstein

The button-down empirical and deductive fields, including all the hard sciences, have lived side by side with 'critical theory,' postmodernism and its perception-based relatives. Since the creation in 1960s and '70s of novel, justice-oriented fields, these incompatible worldviews have repelled one another.

William John Wills

You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.

English Scientist

Stephen Jay Gould

I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them.

American Scientist

Michael Imperioli

There's an intelligence that goes with being a good cop. Intuitiveness - they have to be actors; they have to have deductive reasoning, knowledge about a great deal of subjects.

American Actor

Vincent McNabb

The deductive reasons for a course of action usually follow rather than precede the course of action. Thought follows life.

Irish Clergyman

Henry Mayhew

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

English Journalist

Deductive reasoning starts from a general theory down to specifics.

Top-down Logic

Use 'deductive' to describe logical problem-solving strategies.

Problem Solving

Understand the difference from 'inductive'; deductive works from general to specific.

Contrast with Inductive

In science, 'deductive' implies a strict adherence to logical steps or principles.

Scientific Rigor

'Deductive' often refers to the process of testing scientific hypotheses.

Hypothesis Testing

Deductive research tests theory, while inductive research creates it.

Deductive vs. Inductive Research

 We were taught that scientists follow a method and that this method guarantees the truth of their claims. The method that most of us were taught in school, we can call it the textbook method, is the hypothetical deductive method.

Naomi Oreskes: Why we...

 three, six, two, three, four, three, six, leaves the rebels nowhere to run. Thanks to your deductive reasoning, order is restored to the galaxy.