Reductive Reasoning– Reductive reasoning is a subset of argumentative reasoning which seeks to demonstrate that a statement is true by showing that a false or absurd result/circumstance follows from its denial. Reductive Reasoning is also considered a mixture of deductive & inductive reasoning.

What is reductive and deductive reasoning?

Processes of reasoning are divided into two main types: deductive and reductive. Deductive reasoning begins with a set of premises and concludes with a set of inferences obtained by specified rules of deduction, whereas reductive reasoning tries to obtain a set of premises/causes for an observed set of facts.

What are the 4 types of reasoning?

There are four basic forms of logic: deductive, inductive, abductive and metaphoric inference.