logical deductions
Sound reasoning's products
Logical deductions are conclusions reached through reasoning from premises or evidence.
If all mammals are warm-blooded and a whale is a mammal, the logical deduction is that whales are warm-blooded.
The phrase emphasizes that conclusions follow necessarily from what's known, rather than from guesswork or intuition: Through logical deduction, the detective eliminated all but one suspect.
- propositionStatement expressing a judgment
- reasoningDrawing logical conclusions
- truth tablesCharts mapping logical outcomes
- decision-makingProcess of choosing actions
- epistemologyTheory of knowledge
syllogism · validity · sound argument · Venn diagrams · analysis · rationalism · troubleshooting · tautology · inference · drawing conclusions · process of elimination · scientific method · thought experiment · abstraction · empiricism · mental models · critical thinking · paradoxes
logical deductionswild guesses
Uninformed attempts at answers
hunches · gut feelings · intuitions · wishful thinking · magical thinking
logical deductionsarticles of faith
Foundational beliefs of doctrine
dogma · received wisdom · speculation · conjecture · surmise
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