Philosophy A-Level
Deduction
What Deduction means in Philosophy A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Deduction
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A step-by-step inference in which a conclusion follows necessarily from premises, as in a valid syllogism.
Topics that use Deduction
- Reason as a source of knowledge (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- A priori knowledge of existence
- Certainty and foundationalism
- Copy principle
- Empiricism
- Hume's Fork
- Intuition
- Leibniz and necessary truths
- Plato's theory of recollection
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