Crossword-Solution: DEDUCTIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Deductive | a. | Of or pertaining to deduction; capable of being deduced from premises; deducible. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “DEDUCTIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like Ellery Queen's powers | 1 answer |
| Like Sherlock Holmes's powers | 1 answer |
| Like Sherlock's methods | 1 answer |
| Like evidence-based reasoning | 1 answer |
| ARISTOTELIAN | 3 answers |
| inferential | 7 answers |
| A PRIORI | 7 answers |
| derivable | 8 answers |
| dogmatic | 52 answers |
| eristic | 58 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAETE
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greedy person
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Sentences with DEDUCTIVE (5)
His desk and private drawers, in a room contiguous to his bedchamber, had been ransacked; money and valuable articles were missing; there was a bloody hand-print on the old man’s linen; and, by a powerfully welded chain of deductive evidence, the guilt of the robbery and apparent murder had been fixed on Clifford, then residing with his uncle in the House of the Seven Gables.
You're home, Henry." This superb example of deductive reasoning delivered in the imperious manner of a self-appointed earth-god could only be The Pope.
Whilst the schools might have trained him to the exhibition of the formulas of deductive logic, nature and circumstances forced him into the exercise of the higher faculties required by induction.
His theory was that the simplest way is always the best way and so he never befogged the main issue with any elaborate system of deductive reasoning based on guesswork.
But the deductive method which he pretended to use--mind you, I say PRETENDED, Cleggett!--is, nevertheless, sound." And then the three detectives gave Cleggett an example of the phenomenal cleverness.
Quotes with DEDUCTIVE (3)
The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man’s ability to invent which has made human society what it is. The mental processes of inventions are still mysterious. They are rational but not logical, that is to say, not deductive.
Emotional speculation is to deductive reasoning what weeds are to a garden — at first sight they appear to belong, but eventually they obscure that which one hopes will come into bud.
The word “consciousness,” it seems to me, can only refer to what one might define provisionally as “the knowing that cannot know itself without intermediary and that cannot function in experience (of which it is an indispensable component) except negatively.” To the question “What is consciousness,” then, a low level provisional answer might be “It is the pure subjective” or “It is the bare knowing of what it is not that constitutes (orders) experience and allows it being.” I…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, New Yorker, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1971–2019).