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==== Intelligence ==== The [[ability]] of deductive reasoning is an important aspect of [[intelligence]] and many [[Intelligence test|tests of intelligence]] include problems that call for deductive inferences.<ref name="Johnson-Laird2009" /> Because of this relation to intelligence, deduction is highly relevant to psychology and the cognitive sciences.<ref name="Evans">{{Cite book |last=Evans |first=Jonathan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=znbkHaC8QeMC |title=The Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning |date=18 April 2005 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-82417-0 |editor-last=Morrison |editor-first=Robert |chapter=Deductive reasoning}}</ref> But the subject of deductive reasoning is also pertinent to the [[computer sciences]], for example, in the creation of [[artificial intelligence]].<ref name="Johnson-Laird2009" />
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