deductions

[dih-duhk-shuhn]

de·duc·tion

[dih-duhk-shuhn]
noun
1.
the act or process of deducting; subtraction.
2.
something that is or may be deducted: She took deductions for a home office and other business expenses from her taxes.
3.
the act or process of deducing.
4.
something that is deduced: His astute deduction was worthy of Sherlock Holmes.
5.
Logic.
a.
a process of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the premises presented, so that the conclusion cannot be false if the premises are true.
b.
a conclusion reached by this process. Compare induction (def. 4).

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English deduccioun (< Anglo-French ) < Latin dēductiōn- (stem of dēductiō) a leading away. See deduct, -ion

non·de·duc·tion, noun
pre·de·duc·tion, noun

deduction, extrapolation, induction, generalization, hypothesis.
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Deductions is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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Science Dictionary
deduction   (dĭ-dŭk'shən)  Pronunciation Key 
  1. The process of reasoning from the general to the specific, in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the premises.

  2. A conclusion reached by this process.


Our Living Language  : The logical processes known as deduction and induction work in opposite ways. In deduction general principles are applied to specific instances. Thus, using a mathematical formula to figure the volume of air that can be contained in a gymnasium is applying deduction. Similarly, applying a law of physics to predict the outcome of an experiment is reasoning by deduction. By contrast, induction makes generalizations based on a number of specific instances. The observation of hundreds of examples in which a certain chemical kills plants might prompt the inductive conclusion that the chemical is toxic to all plants. Inductive generalizations are often revised as more examples are studied and more facts are known. If certain plants that have not been tested turn out to be unaffected by the chemical, the conclusion about the chemical's toxicity must be revised or restricted. In this way, an inductive generalization is much like a hypothesis.
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