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noun

Deduction n.

Act or process of deducing or inferring. "The deduction of one language from another." "This process, by which from two statements we deduce a third, is called deduction."

Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as, the deduction of the subtrahend from the minuend.

That which is deduced or drawn from premises by a process of reasoning; an inference; a conclusion. "Make fair deductions; see to what they mount."

That which is or may be deducted; the part taken away; abatement; as, a deduction from the yearly rent in compensation for services; deductions from income in calculating income taxes.

Synonyms: See Induction.

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Etymology of 'Deduction'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Deduction" Quotes from Famous Books

... an absurd deduction founded? It is true that individuals differ widely as to the capabilities of their mental machinery; but it does not follow that the intellectual fibre of one person is more delicate than that ...

— The Curse of Education • Harold E. Gorst

... to give up the child to any one who should demand her in his true name, which he confided to the superior, a sum of nearly L300., which he solemnly swore had been honestly obtained, and which, in all his shifts and adversities, he had never allowed himself to touch. This sum, with the trifling deduction made for arrears due to the convent, Morton now placed in Simon's hands. The old man clutched the money, which was for the most in French gold, with a convulsive gripe: and then, as if ashamed ...

— Night and Morning, Volume 3 • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... without Cazi Moto's whispered assurance that every shot had told. It was a simple bit of deduction, but to these simpler minds it ...

— The Leopard Woman • Stewart Edward White et al

... such delusive proof are presented to us, it is our duty to meet them with the non liquet of a matured judgement; and, although we are unable to expose the particular sophism upon which the proof is based, we have a right to demand a deduction of the principles employed in it; and, if these principles have their origin in pure reason alone, such a deduction is absolutely impossible. And thus it is unnecessary that we should trouble ourselves with the exposure and confutation of every sophistical illusion; ...

— The Critique of Pure Reason • Immanuel Kant

... McKinley had followed in his dealings with us the Filipinos, sacrificing remorselessly to their unbridled ambition the honour of Admiral Dewey, exposing this worthy gentleman and illustrious conqueror of the Spanish fleet to universal ridicule; for no other deduction can follow from the fact that about the middle of May of 1898, the U.S.S. McCulloch brought me with my revolutionary companions from Hongkong, by order of the above mentioned Admiral, while now actually the United States squadron is engaged in bombarding the towns and ports held by these revolutionists, ...

— True Version of the Philippine Revolution • Don Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy

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