Deduction
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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DEDUCTION in logic , form of inference such that...syllogism is one species of deductive reasoning, which was greatly extended by the development of symbolic logic . See R. J. Ackermann, Modern Deductive Logic (1971); P. J. Hurley...