Search Result for "deductive reasoning":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect);
[syn: deduction, deductive reasoning, synthesis]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

deductive reasoning
    n 1: reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause
         to effect) [syn: deduction, deductive reasoning,
         synthesis]