It seems reasonable to see Goldbach's Conjecture, the claim that every even number greater than 4 is the sum of two primes, as supported to a high degree by the non-deductive evidence currently available for it.
Merds that laugh dont like mushrooms: Evidence for deductive reasoning by preschoolers.
Students will exercise deductive reasoning to evaluate the evidence and determine the criminal's identity.
Deductive profiling involves analyzing the evidence — a tire track, DNA, a bloody knife — after the crime occurs in order to create a profile of that offender and use it to catch him.
Although the English favor the procedural approach (whereby a clever copper weighs the evidence and applies deductive reasoning skills to solve a crime), while the Americans go for inductive inference (which involves observing behavior and acting on hunches), both methods achieve the basic objective of the classic mystery -- to cleanse a microcosmic society of an influx of evil.
18 Eisenhardt and Graebner 27 note that '[a] major reason for the popularity and relevance of theory building from case studies is that it is one of the best (if not the best) of the bridges from rich qualitative evidence to mainstream deductive research.
These researchers reported that by exploring alternative conceptions students realized that nonscientific beliefs are not supported by the hypothetico-deductive analysis of current scientific evidence.
The TDs showed clear evidence of hypothetico-deductive reasoning, with an emphasis on explicitly evaluating relevant information and testing provisional hypotheses: what is the differential diagnosis, what questions can be asked, what physical examination can be done and what further testing (laboratory tests, X-rays, etc).
Hypothetico-Deductive (HD) confirmation theorists propose that observational evidence argues for the truth of theories whose deductive consequences it verifies, and against those whose consequences it falsifies (Popper 1959, 32 34).
Though critics faulted the book for building a deductive chain not expressly compelled by the evidence, Mr. Higham defended his methods.
