deductivelyadv.
/dɪˈdʌktɪvli/ In a deductive manner, by deduction, inferentially; †by derivation or descent.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [adverb] > derivatively
derivedly1621
derivately1636
derivativelya1640
deductivelya1641
fountainously1662
derivationally1883
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > process of inferring, inference > [adverb]
by consequent1489
inferringly1571
of consequence1573
conclusionally1574
by consequence1581
reductively1624
deductivelya1641
porismatically1646
conclusively1657
concludently1673
inferentially1691
inductivelya1716
ex vi terminia1726
inferably1903
inferribly1905
a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 132 Holinesse..deductively passed from himselfe to others, members and parts of his body mysticall.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. x. 39 Yet doth it diductively and upon inference include the same. View more context for this quotation
1857 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. (ed. 3) I. 114 Which trace deductively the results.
1862 H. Spencer First Princ. ii. viii. §73 The truth as arrived at deductively, cannot be inductively confirmed.
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