| verb | reason by deduction; establish by deduction |
| verb | draw from specific cases for more general cases |
| verb | conclude by reasoning; in logic |
| verb | guess correctly; solve by guessing “He guessed the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize” |
| verb | believe to be the case “I understand you have no previous experience?” |
| deductive | adjective | involving inferences from general principles |
| deduction | noun | reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect) |
| inference | noun | the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation |
| derivation | noun | a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions |
| generalization | noun | the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances |
| generalisation | noun | the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances |
| extrapolation | noun | an inference about the future (or about some hypothetical situation) based on known facts and observations |
| deducible | adjective | capable of being deduced |
| guesser | noun | a person who guesses |