Deduction
Act or process of deducing or inferring.
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.
That which is deducted; the part taken away; abatement; as, a deduction from the yearly rent.
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Deduction Quotations
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
Albert Einstein
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
Rene Descartes
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
Richard M. Nixon
Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language.
Johann G. Hamann
A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
A. R. Ammons
He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.
Margery Allingham
We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.
Li Ka Shing
Once the housing market begins to recover, I would phase out the mortgage tax deduction.
Joshua A. Tucker
Deduction Translations
deduction in German is Abrechnung {f}, Abzug {m}, Ableitung {f}
deduction in Italian is remissione
deduction in Norwegian is fradrag
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