Method
Deductive reasoning
Overview
method of reasoning by which premises understood to be true produce logically certain conclusions
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Philosophers who discussed Deductive reasoning
- Avicenna
- David Stove
- Dignāga
- Ibn Hazm
- Wesley C. Salmon
- Christian Wolff (philosopher)
- René Descartes
- Thales of Miletus
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- José Ortega y Gasset
- Colin Murray Turbayne
- David Hume
- Simplicius of Cilicia
- Albert of Saxony (philosopher)
- Detective fiction
- Franciscus Patricius
- F. C. S. Schiller
Related ideas
- Method of analytic tableaux
- Belief
- Formal language
- First-order logic
- Self-evidence
- Artificial intelligence
- Argument
- Philosophy
- Interpretation (logic)
- Truth value
- Karl Popper
- Intuitionistic logic
- Ancient Greek philosophy
- Language
- Discourse on the Method
- Problem of induction
- Logical connective
- Propositional logic
- Modus ponens
- Modus tollens
- Geometry
- Model theory
- Philosophical skepticism
- Evidence
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.