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• Valid
  :b : [[logic]]ally correct <a valid argument> <valid [[inference]]> ...other [[words]], validity is a [[necessary]] condition for [[truth]] of a deductive syllogism but is not a sufficient condition.
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• Conclusion
  ...d fallacies (invalid and misleading arguments). (See Richard Pootiz Ortiz, Logic, Quito: Publiconti, 1994). [[Category: Logic]]
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• Deduction
  '''Deductive reasoning''' is [[reasoning]] which uses deductive [[argument]]s to move from given statements ([[premise]]s), which are assum The classic example of deductive reasoning, given by [[Aristotle]], is
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• Generalization
  ...onceptual [[model]]). As such, they are the essential basis of all valid [[deductive]] [[inferences]]. The [[process]] of verification is [[necessary]] to deter [[Category: Logic]]
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• Inference
  * [[Logic]] studies the laws of valid inference. ==The accuracy of inductive and deductive inferences==
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• Theorems
  *1: a [[formula]], [[proposition]], or [[statement]] in [[mathematics]] or [[logic]] deduced or to be deduced from other formulas or propositions ...her [[assumptions]]. The concept of a theorem is therefore fundamentally [[deductive]], in [[contrast]] to the notion of a scientific [[theory]], which is [[emp
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• Consistent
  ...gation are provable from the [[axioms]] of the theory under its associated deductive system. ...cs, such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-order_logic second-order logic], are not complete.
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• Category:Mathematics
  ...]]s and establish their truth by [[Rigour#Mathematical rigour|rigorous]] [[deductive reasoning|deduction]] from appropriately chosen [[axiom]]s and [[definition Through the use of [[abstraction (mathematics)|abstraction]] and [[logic]]al [[reasoning]], mathematics evolved from [[counting]], [[calculation]],
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• Corollary
  ...harles Sanders Peirce] held that the most important division of kinds of [[deductive]] reasoning is that between corollarial and theorematic. He [[argued]] that [[Category: Logic]]
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• Hypothesis
  ...seful hypothesis will enable [[prediction]]s by [[reasoning]] (including [[deductive reasoning]]). It might predict the outcome of an [[experiment]] in a labora Karl Popper's hypothetico-deductive method (also known as the method of "conjectures and refutations") demands
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• Logic
  '''Logic''' (from [[Ancient Greek|Classical Greek]] λόγος [[logos]]; meaning wo ...reasoning using [[probability]] and to arguments involving [[causality]]. Logic is also commonly used today in [[argumentation theory]]. J. Robert Cox and
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• Intuition
  ...it is presented. This is without the intervention of other [[idea]]s or [[deductive reasoning]]. ...at is, intuition that is not empirical (''Prolegomena, p.7''). Intuitistic logic was devised by Arend Heyting to accommodate this position (and has been ado
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• Inquiry
  ...commonly known as [[abductive reasoning|abductive]], [[deductive reasoning|deductive]], and [[inductive reasoning|inductive]] [[inference]]. ...in response to a phenomenon of interest or a problem of concern, while ''[[deductive reasoning|deduction]]'' is used to clarify, to derive, and to explicate the
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• Cognitive Science
  ...ologists have experimentally examined the kinds of mistakes people make in deductive [[reason]]ing, the ways that people form and apply [[concepts]], the speed ...analogous to mental operations. To complement psychological experiments on deductive reasoning, concept formation, mental imagery, and analogical problem solvin
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• Knowledge
  ...ition of knowledge requires that the believer's evidence is such that it [[logic]]ally necessitates the truth of the belief. In ''An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method'' (1934), Morris R. Cohen and Ernest Nagel reviewed t
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• Worldview
  ...[logic]] showed that fundamental choices of [[axioms]] were essential in [[deductive]] reasoning and that, even having chosen axioms not [[everything]] that was ...relativized into something that is only "true for them". [[Subjective]] [[logic]] is a belief reasoning formalism where beliefs explicitly are subjectively
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• Learning
  ...ring]], [[seeing]], [[smell]]ing, [[motor skills]], [[touch]] sense, and [[logic]]al thinking [[lobe]]s; informal names given) are stimulated. ...there are two types of learning: [[Inductive reasoning|inductive]], and [[deductive]]. Inductive machine learning methods extract rules and patterns out of ma
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• Scientific Method
  William Stanley Jevons, ''The principles of science: a treatise on logic and scientific method'' *[[#Predictions from the hypothesis|Predictions]] ([[reasoning]] including [[logic]]al [[deduction]] from [[hypothesis]] and [[theory]])
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• Analogy
  ...[literary theory]], and specializations within [[philosophy]] outside of [[logic]], speaks of a mapping from what is typically the more familiar area of exp ...]]'' held to this notion. Kant argued that there can be exactly the same [[Logic of relatives|relation]] between two completely different objects. The same
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• Talk:2019-12-30-New Era Transition 80
  ...lanet, what is the first step that you would undertake in this sequence of logic? The first step would be to determine to make the logical statement that on ...es decisions. What we are doing now is drilling down into the territory of logic to get to the point of those commonalities of all people. What are the comm
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