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    Deductive reasoning involves drawing conclusions that necessarily follow from given premises. An inference is deductively valid if the premises being true guarantees the conclusion is also true. Deductive reasoning was developed by ancient Greek philosophers like Aristotle and involves syllogisms where a conclusion is inferred from two premises that share a common term. For example, the premises "All humans are mortal" and "Socrates is human" lead to the conclusion "Socrates is mortal".

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    Deductive Logic
    Deductive reasoning concerns what
    follows necessarily from given premises (i.e. from
    a general premise to a particular one).
    An inference is deductively valid if (and only if) there is
    no possible situation in which all the premises are true and
    the conclusion false. However, it should be remembered
    that a false premise can possibly lead to a false
    conclusion.
    Deductive reasoning was developed
    by Aristotle, Thales, Pythagoras and other Greek
    philosophers of the Classical Period. At the core of deductive
    reasoning is the syllogism (also known as term
    logic),usually attributed to Aristotle), where one
    proposition (the conclusion) is inferred from two others
    (the premises), each of which has one term in
    common with the conclusion. For example:
    Major premise: All humans are mortal.
    Minor premise: Socrates is human.
    Conclusion: Socrates is mortal.
    An example of deduction is:
    All apples are fruit.
    All fruits grow on trees.
    Therefore all apples grow on trees.
    One might deny the initial premises, and therefore deny the
    conclusion. But anyone who accepts the premises must
    accept the conclusion. Today, some academics claim that
    Aristotle's system has little more than historical value, being
    made obsolete by the advent of Predicate
    Logic and Propositional Logic (see the sections below).

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