{"id":7664,"date":"2019-05-22T15:59:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/deduction\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:59:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:59:19","slug":"deduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/deduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Deduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A method of reasoning or logical inference going from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect). &nbsp;In another respect, and according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xenodochy.org\/article\/popper.html\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.xenodochy.org\/article\/popper.html&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Karl R. Popper<\/a> (1902-1994), it involves stating a theory first and then trying to find facts to reject it. &nbsp;Darwin and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/aus\/catalogue\/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521651172\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/aus\/catalogue\/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521651172?target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Piaget<\/a> are usually offered as prime examples of using the deductive method in arriving at their respective theories.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"abstract_reasoning\">Abstract reasoning<\/a>, <a href=\"deductive-nomological_-d-n-_model\">Deductive-nomological (D-N) model<\/a>, <a href=\"hypothetico-deductive_method\">Hypothetico-deductive method<\/a>, <a href=\"induction_-philosophy-\">Induction (philosophy)<\/a>, <a href=\"logical_reasoning\">Logical reasoning<\/a>, <a href=\"reasoning_-psychology-\">Reasoning (psychology)<\/a>, <a href=\"reasoning_-genre_theory-\">Reasoning (genre theory)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A method of reasoning or logical inference going from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect). &nbsp;In another respect, and according to Karl R. Popper (1902-1994), it involves stating a theory first and then trying to find facts to reject it. &nbsp;Darwin and Piaget are usually offered as prime examples of using &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/deduction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Deduction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}