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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

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

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

3. (n.) That which is deduced or drawn from premises by a process of reasoning; an inference; a conclusion.

4. (n.) That which is deducted; the part taken away; abatement; as, a deduction from the yearly rent.

Library

ChapterThree May be Paraphrased, I Think, Somewhat in this Way...
... But then if nothing thus rests as it is, it becomes a necessary deduction that,
if wisdom has collected, and labored, and built, folly will follow to possess ...
/.../jennings/old groans and new songs/chapter iii chapter three may.htm

Eighth Tractate. Why Distant Objects Appear Small.
... close at hand. Or again, it may be that magnitude is known incidentally
[as a deduction] from the observation of colour. With an ...
/.../plotinus/the six enneads/eighth tractate why distant objects.htm

How These Persons are to be Answered, who Find Fault with the ...
... by the most skillful arithmeticians,"take away terms of years as vast as that which
we have supposed to be gradually consumed by the deduction of moments ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 12 how these persons are.htm

On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences.
... Nor does that process of induction and deduction by which a lady, finding a stain
of a peculiar kind upon her dress, concludes that somebody has upset the ...
/.../huxley/lay sermons addresses and reviews/v on the educational value.htm

Whether, in Computing Years, we Ought to Follow the Hebrew or the ...
... diversity of numbers which distinguishes the Hebrew from the Greek and Latin copies
of Scripture, and which consists of a uniform addition and deduction of 100 ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 13 whether in computing years.htm

Characters Will be Disclosed, and Justice Awarded.
... On the other hand, every neglect of duty and every deviation from it will come into
the account and make deduction from the weight of glory reserved for them. ...
/.../lee/sermons on various important subjects/sermon xvi characters will be.htm

Contributors.
... could be avoided; we would say to such, that for ten or more Subscribers, who pay
at one time in advance, or on first receiving Numbers, a deduction from the ...
/.../leland/the national preacher vol 2 no 7 dec 1827/contributors.htm

The Paradoxes of Christianity
... It will admit that a man has two hands, it will not admit (though all the Modernists
wail to it) the obvious deduction that he has two hearts. ...
/.../chesterton/orthodoxy/vi the paradoxes of christianity.htm

Apprehending God
... reality. He is a deduction from evidence which they consider adequate;
but He remains personally unknown to the individual. "He ...
//christianbookshelf.org/tozer/the pursuit of god/iv apprehending god.htm

Finding God
... The mind also by reflection and deduction may clothe the Creator with attributes
or qualities of character, such as Almighty skill and benevolence; but ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/howard/standards of life and service/iv finding god.htm

Thesaurus

Deduction (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (n.) Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as, the deduction of the
subtrahend from the minuend. ... Multi-Version Concordance Deduction (1 Occurrence). ...
/d/deduction.htm - 7k

Reason (438 Occurrences)
... 5. (n.) To exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from premises; to
perform the process of deduction or of induction; to ratiocinate; to reach ...
/r/reason.htm - 39k

Allowance (11 Occurrences)
... 6. (n.) Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances;
as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth. ...
/a/allowance.htm - 12k

Lesson (11 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) That which is learned or taught by an express effort; instruction derived
from precept, experience, observation, or deduction; a precept; a doctrine; as ...
/l/lesson.htm - 10k

Gross (12 Occurrences)
... 7. (superl.) Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum,
or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to net. 8 ...
/g/gross.htm - 11k

Insight (39 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Power of acute observation and deduction;
discernment; perception. 2. (n.) A sight or view of ...
/i/insight.htm - 16k

Infer (1 Occurrence)
... 4. (vt) To derive by deduction or by induction; to conclude or surmise from facts
or premises; to accept or derive, as a consequence, conclusion, or probability ...
/i/infer.htm - 7k

Think (601 Occurrences)
... The Greek hegeomai, "to consider," implies logical deduction from premises (Acts
26:2 Philippians 2:6), while in Matthew 1:20; Matthew 9:4, and Acts 10:19 ...
/t/think.htm - 9k

Remainder (33 Occurrences)
... a part; residue; remnant. 2. (n.) The quantity or sum that is left after
subtraction, or after any deduction. 3. (n.) An estate ...
/r/remainder.htm - 18k

Erroneous (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Incorrect; false; mistaken; as, an erroneous
opinion, observation, deduction, view, etc. 2. (a ...
/e/erroneous.htm - 7k

Bible Concordance

Deduction (1 Occurrence)

Leviticus 27:18 But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain to the Year of Jubilee; and an abatement shall be made from your valuation.
(See RSV)

Subtopics

Deduction

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