It was figured out deductively that a planet deflecting the path of the planet Uranus by just so-and-so much should be found at just such and such a particular point in the heavens.
When the telescopes were turned in that direction, the planet Neptune was discovered at precisely the point deductively forecast.
So far as it is inductively true that all border-war is evil, it is deductively true that a given border-war is therefore evil.
They must, however, be connected deductively with the universal laws of human nature on which they rest, or they will be only low empirical laws.
Taking this for granted, he reasoned deductively from premisses with which his knowledge of water supplied him.
He reasons deductively from the ideas which his powerful intellect supplied, instead of reasoning inductively from the facts which were peculiar to the subject he was investigating.
From these two assumptions, he reasons downwards to the visible facts of our conduct, and deductively constructs the general scheme of life.
He clearly saw, that Hume had assumed certain principles, and had reasoned deductively from them to the facts, instead of reasoning inductively from the facts to them.
For, as they argued deductively from fixed premisses, they could not take into account the perturbations to which their conclusions were liable, from the play and friction of the surrounding society.
The false induction from genuine facts of observation, leading to the construction of theories which are then deductively applied in the face of the results of direct observation.
The conditions of a phenomenon which arises from a composition of causes, may be investigated either deductivelyor experimentally.
Another mode of stating it would be thus: What are the fewest general propositions from which all the uniformities which exist in the universe might be deductively inferred?
There are only two modes in which laws of nature can be ascertained—deductively and experimentally; including under the denomination of experimental inquiry, observation as well as artificial experiment.
Whose cognition although it seems indifferent, and therefore its aberration directly to condemn no man; yet doth he hereby preparatively dispose us unto errors, and deductively deject us into destructive conclusions.
It is not, of course, asserted that the more special physiological truths can be deductively reached.
With regard to the great mass of the correlations, however, including all the indirect ones, Professor Huxley seems to us warranted in denying that they are necessary; and we now propose to show deductively the truth of his thesis.
Thus, given the ordinary conditions of animal life, and the possession of stomachs by all creatures living under these conditions may be deductively known.
This principle maybe established inductively from the incomprehensibility of the ultimate scientific ideas, as well as deductively from the nature of intelligence, through an analysis of the product and the process of thought.
The ethical philosopher cannot, hence, confine himself to developing deductively the implications of some principle or principles assumed without critical examination.
In so far, men reason from them deductively and pass from the general rule to the particular instance.
This primary difference of opinion leads deductively to certain secondary differences.
Thus if we erect the hypothesis that "All men are mortal," we may reason deductively that it will follow that each and every thing that is a man must die sooner or later.
After Induction has classified certain phenomena and thus given us a major premise, we proceed deductively to apply the inference to any new specimen that can be shown to belong to that class.
Neither of them liked induction, but preferred reasoning deductively from premises which they assumed, and which they called first principles.
And, as he clearly saw, the proper method was to study the laws of symmetry, and then apply them deductively to minerals, instead of rising inductively from the aberrations actually presented by minerals.
Instead of puzzling your mind over a hundred different phases of disconnected phenomena, it is better to master the few actual elementary principles, and then reason deductively from these to the various manifestation thereof.
Moreover, as all students of the subconscious know, these wonderful subconscious mental factulties have a very highly developed power of reasoning deductively from a given premise or fact.
They enforce themdeductively by arguing from an assumed axiom, that the State has no right to do anything but protect its subjects from aggression.
As a matter of fact, the conclusion deductively reached is in harmony with the inductive conclusion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deductively" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
