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A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (3 ed.)
... reasoning ( deduction ) Reasoning from the general to the particular, for example by developing a hypothesis based on theory and then testing it from an examination of facts. Compare inductive reasoning...
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A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)
... reasoning n. A form of logical reasoning based on deduction in which a conclusion is derived from premises using rules of inference, a valid deduction being one in which it is impossible to assert the premises and deny the conclusion without contradiction. One form, though by no means the only form, of deductive reasoning is the syllogism . See also conditional reasoning , modal logic...
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A Dictionary of Public Health (2 ed.)
...deductive reasoning A method of reasoned argument in which a conclusion or inference must logically follow from observed facts in combination with related axioms, premises, or principles. This is the underlying method of Sherlock Holmes and many other fictional detectives. Another phrase for this is “particularizing from the general.” See also induction . ...
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A Dictionary of Business Research Methods
... reasoning The cognitive process by which one or more propositions are made from which a circumscribed conclusion necessarily follows. Consider these propositions: 1) All privately-owned businesses are profit-maximizers. 2) The Wet Fish Company is a private business. 3) The Wet Fish Company is a profit-maximizer. If propositions 1) and 2) are factually correct, then the logical conclusion is that proposition 3) is necessarily true. See also inductive ...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3 ed.)
...deductive reasoning [Th] A critical element of the New Archaeology of the late 1960s and 1970s which allowed the translation of the scientific method into archaeological work. Under its rubric, a hypothesis is set up, predictions are deduced from the hypothesis, and these are then tested against empirically derived...
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Islam: The Religion of Reason and Nature Reference library
Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khān
Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (2 ed.)
...regards Muslim thought in his time as out of step with what he calls “a new wisdom and philosophy,” which he characterizes as scientific and based on the empirical method. Neither deductive reasoning, often based on analogy, nor, worse still, mere assertion of truth, suffices to convince the doubter. The prescription is clear: the ulema (clergy) should embrace inductive reasoning. In short, he calls for “a new theology,” just as the early Muslims articulated a new theology in their time. As with the earlier reformers, Tahtawi, Afghani and ‘Abduh, Ahmad Khan...
Reason and Individual Reasoning Reference library
Khan Muqtedar
Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (2 ed.)
... 34:46 , 39:42 , 59:21 , 45:13 , 3:191 ; for the text of these verses see footnote). 2 It is mystifying why these direct invitations to use reason were not used by the great scholar to explain ijtihad and instead he used verses which required a considerable degree of deductive reasoning to justify and validate his point. For example, the full text of the second verse that Imam Shafii uses has awesome potential: It is He who maketh the stars for you, that you may guide yourself with their help. Through the darkness of land and sea. We detail Our signs...
Natural Philosophy (Science) Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...of Descartes , Newton established a style of enquiry applicable to a range of astronomical and terrestrial phenomena. In his other major work, the Opticks of 1704 , Newton presented a more experimental method. Although most of the Principia was strictly mathematical and deductive, its pairing with the work on optics allowed Newton's approach to stand as the exemplar of an experimental and quantitative natural philosophy concerned with the components of matter and the forces that act upon it. Throughout the eighteenth century the ‘Newtonian philosophy’...
The Principle of Movement in the Structure of Islam Reference library
Muhammad Iqbal
Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook
...view of things, and to study local conditions of life and habits of new peoples that came within the fold of Islam. A careful study of the various schools of legal opinion, in the light of contemporary social and political history, reveals that they gradually passed from the deductive to the inductive attitude in their efforts at interpretation. 3. Thirdly, when we study the four accepted sources of Islamic Law and the controversies which they invoked, the supposed rigidity of our...
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