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Scientific methodology
deductive-nomological model (DN model) of scientific explanation, also known as Hempel's model, the Hempel–Oppenheim model, the Popper–Hempel model,
Deductive-nomological_model
Proposed description of the scientific method
efficiency of the research. Confirmation bias Deductive-nomological Explanandum and explanans Inquiry Models of scientific inquiry Philosophy of science
Hypothetico-deductive_model
Science of laws in philosophy
framework for building a nomological network of relationships between constructs in decision making. Deductive-nomological model Nomological determinism Nomothetic
Nomology
English theoretical physicist (1942–2018)
friends with whom he enjoyed board games, the manufacture of fireworks, model aeroplanes and boats, and long discussions about Christianity and extrasensory
Stephen_Hawking
Awareness of facts, or competency
a conditional production rule of the form "if A then B". Semantic nets model knowledge as a graph consisting of vertices to represent facts or concepts
Knowledge
Question of whether inductive reasoning leads to definitive knowledge
instead that science is based on the procedure of conjecturing hypotheses, deductively calculating consequences, and then empirically attempting to falsify
Problem_of_induction
Set of statements constructed to describe a set of facts which clarifies causes
explanation Deductive-nomological explanation, involves subsuming the explanandum under a generalization from which it may be derived in a deductive argument
Explanation
Property of a statement that can be logically contradicted
theory to explain a subject Hypothetico-deductive model – Proposed description of the scientific method Models of scientific inquiry Predictive power –
Falsifiability
Conformity to reality
observation and experimentation, whereas the formal sciences rely on deductive reasoning from fundamental principles. Many religious traditions regard
Truth
Austrian–British philosopher of science (1902–1994)
1982. A vigorous attack, especially on Popper's restricting himself to deductive logic. Thomas, Trzyna. Karl Popper and literary theory : critical rationalism
Karl_Popper
Movement in Western philosophy
Hempel was prominent in the development of the deductive-nomological (DN) model, then the foremost model of scientific explanation defended even among
Logical_positivism
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924
system of government that ruled Russia for seven decades and provided the model for later Communist-led states that came to cover a third of the inhabited
Vladimir_Lenin
German philosopher, sociologist, and theorist (1903–1969)
authoritarianism, antisemitism, and propaganda that would later serve as models for sociological studies the institute carried out in post-war Germany.
Theodor_W._Adorno
Philosophical theory
holism: some systems have properties independent of their physical parts Nomological holism: some systems follow physical laws beyond the laws followed by
Holism
Method of logical reasoning
an argument is supported not with deductive certainty, but at best with some degree of probability. Unlike deductive reasoning (such as mathematical induction)
Inductive_reasoning
Material supporting an assertion
Retrieved 6 March 2021. "hypothetico-deductive method". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 15 June 2021. "hypothetico-deductive method". Encyclopedia Britannica
Evidence
Philosophical and social theory critical of traditional humanism
unified science, which assimilates all the sciences to a natural-scientific model, fails because of the intimate relationship between the social sciences
Antihumanism
Concept in epistemology
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Justification_(epistemology)
Idea that knowledge comes only/mainly from sensory experience
generalizations from experience; mathematical inference, generally conceived as deductive [and a priori] in nature, Mill set down as founded on induction. Thus
Empiricism
Two geometries based on axioms closely related to those specifying Euclidean geometry
appropriate curvature to model a portion of hyperbolic space and in a second paper in the same year, defined the Klein model, which models the entirety of hyperbolic
Non-Euclidean_geometry
German sociologist, jurist, and political economist (1864–1920)
elements of Western civilisation. Weber also proposed a socio-evolutionary model of religious change where societies moved from magic to ethical monotheism
Max_Weber
View that science is the best/only truth
modern European origins and stylizes it into a spatio-temporally neutral model for processes of social development in general. Furthermore, it breaks the
Scientism
American philosopher (1942–2023)
mechanistic explanation which rejects standard deductive models of explanation, such as the deductive-nomological model by understanding scientific practice as
Peter_K._Machamer
Austrian philosopher of science (1924–1994)
elements to detect isomorphisms, comparing "local grammars", or building a model of a theory within its alternative. Incommensurability, however, only arises
Paul_Feyerabend
Empiricist philosophical theory
According to this way of thinking, a scientific theory is a mathematical model that describes and codifies the observations we make. A good theory will
Positivism
German writer and philosopher (1905–1997)
science. Hempel articulated the deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation, which was considered the "standard model" of scientific explanation
Carl_Gustav_Hempel
Austrian physicist, philosopher and university educator (1838–1916)
one cannot observe things as small as atoms directly, and since no atomic model at the time was consistent, the atomic hypothesis seemed unwarranted to
Ernst_Mach
Unscientific claims presented as scientific
Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge. pp. 91–195. Gauch (2003), pp. 178 ff, (Deductive Logic, "Fallacies"). Macmillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy Vol. 3, "Fallacies"
Pseudoscience
German social philosopher (1929–2026)
research"".[clarification needed] Habermas used rational reconstruction as a model for analysing the development of social systems in terms of a dialectic
Jürgen_Habermas
Proposed explanation for an observation, phenomenon, or scientific problem
produced novel attempts at such a synthesis. Concepts in Hempel's deductive-nomological model play a key role in the development and testing of hypotheses
Hypothesis
Branch of science that studies society and its relationships
scientific method,[page needed] that is, the proliferation of formal-deductive model building and quantitative hypothesis testing. Approaches to the discipline
Social_science
Approach to social philosophy
emancipatory form of Marxist philosophy, Horkheimer critiqued both the model of science put forward by logical positivism, and what he and his colleagues
Critical_theory
Ancient Greek word for a type of wisdom or intelligence
neo-Aristotelian Phronesis Model (neo-APM), which refines the construct using contemporary psychometric techniques. This updated model empirically identified
Phronesis
French philosopher
demonstrated the discontinuous nature of the history of sciences. Thus, models that framed scientific development as continuous, such as that of Comte
Gaston_Bachelard
1962 book by Thomas S. Kuhn
"development-by-accumulation" of accepted facts and theories. Kuhn argued for an episodic model in which periods of conceptual continuity and cumulative progress, referred
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions
French philosopher, mathematician and sociologist (1798–1857)
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Auguste_Comte
Intellectual current and methodological approach in the social science
specific domain of culture may be understood by means of a structure that is modelled on language and is distinct both from the organizations of reality and
Structuralism
American economist (born 1942)
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Deirdre_McCloskey
French sociologist (1858–1917)
of epistemological realism, as well as the use of the hypothetico-deductive model in social science. For Durkheim, sociology was the science of institutions
Émile_Durkheim
Early pioneer of antiseptic procedures
them through falsifying experiments in accordance with Hempel's deductive-nomological model. It has been seen as an irony that Semmelweis' critics considered
Ignaz_Semmelweis
rather than the rule." Most historians today have moved away from a conflict model, which is based mainly on two historical episodes (Galileo and Darwin),
Relationship between science and religion
Relationship_between_science_and_religion
American philosopher of science
the covering law model's other component, the deductive-nomological model (DN model). Yet ultimately, Salmon held statistical models to be but early stages
Wesley_C._Salmon
Sociological theory of society
towards biology as the science providing the closest and most compatible model for social science. Biology has been taken to provide a guide to conceptualizing
Structural_functionalism
Position in the philosophy of science
was superior. Physicists knew better, but, busy developing the Standard Model, were so steeped in developing quantum field theory, that their talk, largely
Instrumentalism
German philosopher (1833–1911)
rejected using a model formed exclusively from the natural sciences (Naturwissenschaften), and instead proposed developing a separate model for the human
Wilhelm_Dilthey
Metatheoretical stance on scientific inquiry
theories and practices across philosophy, social sciences, and various models of scientific inquiry. While positivists emphasize independence between
Postpositivism
English historian & activist (1924–1993)
James, 1983 on YouTube. E. P. Thompson at the March 1977 SSRC Seminar on Models of Social Change on YouTube. and Dorothy Thompson, Family Website. Now hosted
E._P._Thompson
Epistemological philosophy advanced by Karl Popper
skepticism. His approach was to put in perspective the distinctive role of deductive logic in the development of knowledge, especially in science, in the context
Critical_rationalism
American physicist (1882–1961)
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Percy_Williams_Bridgman
Theoretical stance in social science
unified science, which assimilates all the sciences to a natural-scientific model, fails because of the intimate relationship between the social sciences
Antipositivism
Part of the process of research design
Press. Feeley, Thomas Hugh (2000-08-01). "Testing a communication network model of employee turnover based on centrality". Journal of Applied Communication
Operationalization
1990s dispute in philosophy of science
the debate. A number of 20th-century philosophers maintained that logical models of pure science do not apply to actual scientific practice. It was the publication
Science_wars
American philosopher (born 1941)
courses in the philosophy of science, philosophical logic, and the role of modeling in scientific practice. Van Fraassen is an adult convert to the Roman Catholic
Bas_van_Fraassen
Cultural and artistic movement
often discomforting examination of the relationship between artist and model. According to William Grimes of The New York Times, "Lucien Freud and his
Modernism
1923 book by György Lukács
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History and Class Consciousness
History_and_Class_Consciousness
1951 philosophy article by Willard Van Orman Quine
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Two_Dogmas_of_Empiricism
System of causally interacting parts and processes
example, the decline of Covering Law (CL) models of explanation, e.g., Hempel's deductive-nomological model, has stimulated interest how mechanisms might
Mechanism_(biology)
American philosopher (1922–1996)
disciplines. This attention to the proliferation of specialties would make Kuhn's model less 'revolutionary' and more "evolutionary". [R]evolutions, which produce
Thomas_Kuhn
Belgian-born American philosopher of science and language
the nature of "why?" questions. His early work critiqued the Deductive-nomological model, using "flagpole"-type counter examples. His 1966 article "Why-questions"
Sylvain_Bromberger
Hungarian philosopher and critic (1885–1971)
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György_Lukács
1944 book by Karl Popper
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The_Poverty_of_Historicism
Critical observation of science
writer Alan Watts criticized science for operating under a materialist model of the world that he posited is simply a modified version of the Abrahamic
Criticism_of_science
German–American philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist (1898–1979)
in May 1933. While a member of the Frankfurt School, Marcuse developed a model for critical social theory, created a theory of the new stage of state and
Herbert_Marcuse
Theory in the philosophy of perception
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Sense_data
Contextualism Conventionalism Deductive-nomological model Determinism Empiricism Fallibilism Foundationalism Hypothetico-deductive model Infinitism Instrumentalism
Outline_of_philosophy
Branch of philosophy
early and influential account of scientific explanation is the deductive-nomological model. It says that a successful scientific explanation must deduce
Philosophy_of_science
Topics referred to by the same term
element bearing in mm multiplied by its speed in rpm Deductive-nomological model, a philosophical model for scientific explanation Double negative T cells
DN
Philosophical question of how to distinguish between science and non-science
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Demarcation_problem
Latin terms
explanans. Carl Gustav Hempel and Paul Oppenheim (1948), in their deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation, explored the distinction between explanans
Explanandum_and_explanans
1936 book by A. J. Ayer
philosophy is to propose basic principles of meaning and to construct a deductive system by offering the consequences of these principles of meaning as
Language,_Truth,_and_Logic
Argentine-Canadian philosopher (1919–2020)
Émile Meyerson. Among many frameworks that Bunge proposed was a five-stage model of the maturation of science from immature prescience to mature tetartoscience:
Mario_Bunge
German-Swiss philosopher (1843–1896)
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Richard_Avenarius
English philosopher (1910–1989)
confronted Mike Tyson, who was forcing himself upon the then little-known model Naomi Campbell. When Ayer demanded that Tyson stop, Tyson reportedly asked
A._J._Ayer
1959 book by Karl Popper
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery
The_Logic_of_Scientific_Discovery
2001 Stephen Hawking's book
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The_Universe_in_a_Nutshell
Russian physician, philosopher, and revolutionary (1873–1928)
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Alexander_Bogdanov
German philosopher and socialist (1833–1921)
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Eugen_Dühring
Theory in the philosophy of science
Keller in Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines (2002) and other works. Jean Piaget suggested,
Unity_of_science
Social science conception of understanding and relation
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Verstehen
Idea in the philosophy of science
Ken Gemes (1993). The latter provides refinements to the hypothetico-deductive account of confirmation, arguing that a piece of evidence may be confirmationally
Confirmation_holism
Oppenheim is co-founder of the so-called Hempel–Oppenheim schema (deductive-nomological model). Hempel, CG and Oppenheim, P.: "The type concept in light of
Paul_Oppenheim
Academic disciplines that study society and culture
to 'progress.' This is the approach taken by the liberal arts college, a model that takes pride in seeing science in context and in integrating science
Humanities
Metaphysical view that physical objects only exist as sensory stimuli
of phenomenalism by developing a "language model" as an alternative to the commonly accepted "geometric model" which underlies both the modern theory of
Phenomenalism
Philosophical doctrine
rapidly advancing natural sciences by taking scientific testability as the model for all serious inquiry. The verification principle thus functioned as a
Verificationism
Form of empiricism in philosophy of science
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Constructive_empiricism
Book by Stephen C. Pepper
Experimental Child Psychology, 46, 289-323. Overton, W. F., & Reese, H. W. (1973). Models of development: Methodological implications. In J. R. Nesselroade & H. W
World_Hypotheses
1909 book by Vladimir Lenin
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Materialism and Empirio-criticism
Materialism_and_Empirio-criticism
Philosophical terms used by Windelband
specific individual and his or her unique traits. In sociology, the nomothetic model tries to find independent variables that account for the variations in a
Nomothetic_and_idiographic
Social theory proposed by Giddens that attempts to resolve the structure-agent debate
social relations and therefore structure. Hitherto, social structures or models were either taken to be beyond the realm of human control—the positivistic
Structuration_theory
Type of attempt to uncover truths
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Objectivity_(science)
Form of research
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Qualitative_research
Movement in political science
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Post-behavioralism
1924–1936 group of philosophers and scientists
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Vienna_Circle
Economics controversy
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Methodenstreit
German philosopher (1837–1885)
this idealistic approach to conceptual realism in logic, to a priori deductive rationalism in epistemology, and to both human spontaneous creativity
Ernst_Laas
1927 book by Percy Williams Bridgman
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The_Logic_of_Modern_Physics
School of thought of philosophy of law and jurisprudence
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Legal_positivism
School of thought in criminology
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Positivist school (criminology)
Positivist_school_(criminology)
Approach in political science
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Behavioralism
Epistemological position in praxeology
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Methodological_dualism
DEDUCTIVE NOMOLOGICAL-MODEL
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Male
Japanese
(1-妖一, 2-陽一, 3-洋一, 4-与一) Japanese name YOICHI means "bewitching/seductive first (son)," 2) "clear/sun/pride first (son)," 3) "foreign/ocean first (son)," and 4) "participating first (son)."
Girl/Female
Afghan, African, American, Arabic, Danish, Egyptian, Finnish, Hebrew, Hindu, Indian, Jamaican, Modern, Muslim, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil
Dark Beauty; Wine; Intoxication; Night Beauty; Born at Night; Seductive
Girl/Female
African, American, Arabic, Assamese, Australian, British, Danish, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindu, Indian, Iranian, Jamaican, Latin, Muslim, Parsi, Persian, Polish, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Swahili, Tamil
Good; Night; Feminine of Lyle; Seductive; Dark Beauty; Lily; Purity; Pleasure; Sport; Pastime; Delicate; Playful; Divine Drama
Surname or Lastname
English and French
English and French : nickname for a tall person, from Old English lang, long, Old French long ‘long’, ‘tall’ (equivalent to Latin longus).Irish (Ulster (Armagh) and Munster) : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Longáin (see Langan).Chinese : from the name of an official treasurer called Long, who lived during the reign of the model emperor Shun (2257–2205 bc). his descendants adopted this name as their surname. Additionally, a branch of the Liu clan (see Lau 1), descendants of Liu Lei, who supposedly had the ability to handle dragons, was granted the name Yu-Long (meaning roughly ‘resistor of dragons’) by the Xia emperor Kong Jia (1879–1849 bc). Some descendants later simplified Yu-Long to Long and adopted it as their surname.Chinese : there are two sources for this name. One was a place in the state of Lu in Shandong province during the Spring and Autumn period (722–481 bc). The other source is the Xiongnu nationality, a non-Han Chinese people.Chinese : variant of Lang.Cambodian : unexplained.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : occupational name for a stonemason, Middle English, Old French mas(s)on. Compare Machen. Stonemasonry was a hugely important craft in the Middle Ages.Italian (Veneto) : from a short form of Masone.French : from a regional variant of maison ‘house’.George Mason (1725–92), the American colonial statesman who framed the VA Bill of Rights and Constitution, which was used as a model by Thomas Jefferson when drafting the Declaration of Independence, was a VA planter, fourth in descent from George Mason (?1629–?86), a royalist soldier of the English Civil War who had received land grants in VA. As well as being prominent in the affairs of VA, the family also produced the first governor of MI.
Boy/Male
English American
From the raven farm. TV detective character Renington Steele. Surname.
Boy/Male
Hindu
Model state of india
Boy/Male
Muslim
Model, Example
Girl/Female
American, Arabic, Hebrew
Night; Lovelorn; Seductive
Girl/Female
African, Arabic, Australian, French, German, Hebrew, Indian, Kenyan, Spanish, Swahili, Tamil
Gentle; Delicate; Gentleness is her Soul; Lovelorn; Seductive
Girl/Female
French, German, Latin, Spanish
Smooth; Seductive; Flattering; Blond
Girl/Female
American, Arabic, Australian, British, Danish, English, Greek, Hebrew, Latin
Night; Night Beauty; Feminine of Lyle; From the Island; Variant of Delilah; Form of Lilac; Bluish; Languishing; Lovelorn; Seductive
Surname or Lastname
German
German : habitational name from any of several places so named, for example in Westphalia and Switzerland.German : nickname from Middle High German heiden ‘heathen’, Old High German heidano, apparently a derivative of heida ‘heath’, modeled on Latin paganus (see Pain 1). The nickname was sometimes used to refer to a Christian knight who had been on a Crusade to fight in the Holy Land.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : of uncertain origin; possibly a shortened form of any of various ornamental names formed with German Heide- ‘heath’, for example Heidenberg, Heidenkorn, Heidenkrug, Heidenwurzel.English : variant spelling of Hayden.Dutch : shortened form of vanderHeiden.
Female
Chinese
flattering and seductive.
Girl/Female
Muslim
Depictive
Girl/Female
American, Arabic, Australian, Christian, English, French, Greek, Hebrew, Indian, Persian, Sanskrit
Dark Haired Beauty; Night; Divine Play; From the Island; Night Beauty; Lovelorn; Seductive
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Not Defective; Healthy; Whole
Girl/Female
African, American, Arabic, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Indian, Iranian, Irish, Italian, Muslim, Parsi, Sindhi, Swedish, Tamil
Dark as Night; Black; Night; Night Beauty; Nocturnal; Dark-haired Beauty; Lovelorn; Seductive; Name of a Saint; Dark Haired
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Tamil, Telugu
Initiation; Concentration; God's Name; Dedicative
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Depictive
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Boy/Male
Hindu
The bow of Arjuna
Girl/Female
French, German, Greek, Swedish
Pure
Boy/Male
American, Australian, Portuguese, Spanish
Liberator
Boy/Male
Hindu
Auspicious, Lord Vishnu, Revered
Boy/Male
Tamil
Crocodile
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Unique
Girl/Female
Australian, Christian, French, German, Latin
To Seek; Bold
Boy/Male
French
Red haired.
Boy/Male
Indian
Beautiful
Girl/Female
Biblical
Green fruit, ears of corn.
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a.
Facilitating induction; susceptible of being acted upon by induction; as certain substances have a great inductive capacity.
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Alt. of Zymological
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Operating by induction; as, an inductive electrical machine.
a.
Alt. of Atmological
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Neologic; neological.
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Fitted for, or skilled in, detecting; employed in detecting crime or criminals; as, a detective officer.
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Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb.
a.
Tending to educate; that gives education; as, an educative process; an educative experience.
adv.
By deduction; by way of inference; by consequence.
a.
Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied either to natural or moral qualities; as, a defective limb; defective timber; a defective copy or account; a defective character; defective rules.
n.
Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as, the deduction of the subtrahend from the minuend.
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Ontological.
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Alt. of Gnomological
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A reductive agent.
a.
Alt. of Entomological
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Of or pertaining to deduction; capable of being deduced from premises; deducible.
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Alt. of Posological
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Leading to inferences; proceeding by, derived from, or using, induction; as, inductive reasoning.
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That which is deducted; the part taken away; abatement; as, a deduction from the yearly rent.
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Tending to lead astray; apt to mislead by flattering appearances; tempting; alluring; as, a seductive offer.