Proof; evidence.
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Deductive reasoning
reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)
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The act of forming reasons, making inductions, drawing conclusions, and applying them to the case in discussion; the operation of infe…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Philosophy, Argument and reasoning, Essay and argument structure, Logic and argument.The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Philosophy, Argument and reasoning, Logic and argument.The quality of being cogent; power of compelling conviction; conclusiveness; force.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Philosophy, Argument and reasoning, Logic and argument.The last part of anything; close; termination; end.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Philosophy, Argument and reasoning, Logic and argument.To engage in combat for; to strive for.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Philosophy, Argument and reasoning, Essay and argument structure, Logic and argument.Act or process of deducing or inferring.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Philosophy, Analysis and evaluation, Argument and reasoning, Essay and argument structure, Logic and argument.The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Philosophy, Argument and reasoning, Logic and argument.The act or process of inferring from premises or reasons; perception of the connection between ideas; that which is inferred; inferenc…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Philosophy, Argument and reasoning, Logic and argument.The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Philosophy, Argument and reasoning, Logic and argument.The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Philosophy, Argument and reasoning, Logic and argument.Flax; linen.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Philosophy, Argument and reasoning, Logic and argument.The science or art of exact reasoning, or of pure and formal thought, or of the laws according to which the processes of pure thinking…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Philosophy, Argument and reasoning, Logic and argument.Of or pertaining to logic; used in logic; as, logical subtilties.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Philosophy, Argument and reasoning, Logic and argument.A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Philosophy, Argument and reasoning, Logic and argument.Premise.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Philosophy, Argument and reasoning, Logic and argument.The act of setting or placing before; the act of offering.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Philosophy, Argument and reasoning, Logic and argument.The process of reasoning, or deducing conclusions from premises; deductive reasoning.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Philosophy, Argument and reasoning, Logic and argument.
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Characterizing that kind of reasoning which derives propositions from the observation of facts, or by generalizations from facts arriv…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reasoning, cause, effect.To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reasoning, cause, effect.To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to asc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reasoning, cause, effect.To draw to, or cause to tend to; esp. to cause to approach, adhere, or combine; or to cause to resist divulsion, separation, or decomp…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reasoning, cause, effect.Relating to a cause or causes; inplying or containing a cause or causes; expressing a cause; causative.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reasoning, cause, effect.The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reasoning, cause, effect.(physics) an effect whereby a body moving in a rotating frame of reference experiences the Coriolis force acting perpendicular to the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reasoning, cause, effect.That branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of reasoning; the application of logical principles to discursive reasoning; th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reasoning, cause, effect.The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reasoning, cause, effect.Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reasoning, cause, effect.Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reasoning, cause, effect.Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reasoning, cause, effect.Having the power to produce an effect or effects; producing a decided or decisive effect; efficient; serviceable; operative; as, an ef…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reasoning, cause, effect.To put force upon; to force; to constrain; to compel; as, to enforce obedience to commands.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reasoning, cause, effect.To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reasoning, cause, effect.
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