Sentences with phrase «deductive procedures»

As Hall explains it, this method follows certain procedures.: «The categorical notions are axiomatically organized, allowing for relevant deductive procedures which define the limits of applicability and the mutual coherence of the categorical notions within the scheme itself» (CE 12).

No simple inductive or deductive procedure is sufficiently fruitful.

But at this stage these A-laws will appear only as unjustified assertions within B. To complete the reduction, we must also show that the A-laws as expressed in the language of B, can indeed be derived from the basic laws of B by some deductive procedure.

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I am using the term «dialectic» in its ancient and etymological sense, and it seems appropriate to describe the process by this word; for instead of an aprioristic, deductive method of procedure, the process was one of answering questions and objections as they arose, not in anticipation, and not as the unfolding, more geometrico, of a system implicit within a body of axioms or first principles which one needed only accept and then all the rest followed logically to the final Q.E.D..

In a surprising move for a mathematician turned philosopher, Whitehead explicitly eschews the deductive method as the key procedure to be followed in elaborating metaphysical truth.