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Definition of Deduction

1. Noun. A reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket.

2. Noun. An amount or percentage deducted.

3. Noun. Something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied). "His resignation had political implications"

4. Noun. Reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect).

5. Noun. The act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole). "He complained about the subtraction of money from their paychecks"

6. Noun. The act of reducing the selling price of merchandise.

Definition of Deduction

1. n. Act or process of deducing or inferring.

Definition of Deduction

1. Noun. That which is deducted; that which is subtracted or removed ¹

2. Noun. A sum that can be removed from tax calculations; something that is written off ¹

3. Noun. A conclusion; that which is deduced, concluded or figured out ¹

4. Noun. The ability or skill to deduce or figure out; the power of reason ¹

5. Noun. (logic) A process of reasoning that moves from the general to the specific, in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the premises presented, so that the conclusion cannot be false if the premises are true. ¹

6. Noun. A conclusion reached by this process ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Deduction

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Medical Definition of Deduction

1. The logical derivation of a conclusion from certain premises. The conclusion will be true if the premises are true and the deductive argument is valid. Compare: induction . (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deduction

deducibility deducible deducibleness deducibly deducing deducive deduct deductable deducted deductibilities

deductibility deductible deductibles deductibles and coinsurance deducting deduction (current term) deduction theorem deductions deductive deductive closure

deductive inference deductive reasoning deductively deductivism deductivist deductivists deductor deducts dedupe deduped

Literary usage of Deduction

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1901)
"I—Of the Principles of a Transcendental deduction in general §» Teachers of jurisprudence, when speaking of rights and claims, distinguish in a cause the ..."

2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"S it P. lie agrees with Jevons in calling this second syllogism analytical deduction, and with Jevons and Sigwart in calling it hypothetical deduction. ..."

3. A History of Modern Philosophy: A Sketch of the History of Philosophy from by Harald Høffding (1908)
"The subjective deduction, consisting in psychological analysis, ... The next question—which it is the task of the objective deduction to answer—is : Subject ..."

4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"There is no difficulty in holding that the Statute of 1866 does permit this deduction, so far that ¡s, as the statute itself is concerned. ..."

5. The Essentials of Logic: Being Ten Lectures on Judgment and Inference by Bernard Bosanquet (1903)
"Classification and hypothesis bring us into deduction, which is not really a ... In Induction you are finding out the system piecemeal, in deduction you ..."

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