section_path: Reason compared to related concepts/Logical reasoning methods and argumentation/Deductive reasoning
section_name: Deductive reasoning
paragraph_text: Deductive reasoning
  
  Deduction is a form of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the stated premises. A deduction is also the name for the conclusion reached by a deductive reasoning process. A classic example of deductive reasoning is evident in syllogisms like the following:
  
  The reasoning in this argument is deductively valid because there is no way in which both premises could be true and the conclusion be false.