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deductive reasoning
deductive reasoning Deductive reasoning is reasoning treated in exact logic as drawing conclusions through logical relations among terms, especially in forms that can be analyzed symbolically.
Deductive reasoning is reasoning treated in exact logic as drawing conclusions through logical relations among terms, especially in forms that can be analyzed symbolically. In this historical source, it is presented as the kind of reasoning to which Boole applied algebraic methods.