- the act or process of deducting; subtraction.
- something that is or may be deducted: She took deductions for a home office and other business expenses from her taxes.
- the act or process of deducing.
- something that is deduced: His astute deduction was worthy of Sherlock Holmes.
- Logic.
- 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.
- a conclusion reached by this process.
- the act or process of deducting or subtracting
- something, esp a sum of money, that is or may be deducted
- the process of reasoning typical of mathematics and logic, whose conclusions follow necessarily from their premises
- an argument of this type
- the conclusion of such an argument
- logic
- a systematic method of deriving conclusions that cannot be false when the premises are true, esp one amenable to formalization and study by the science of logic
- an argument of this type
