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Example sentences for "deduction"

Lexicographically close words:
deducible; deducing; deduct; deducted; deducting; deductions; deductive; deductively; deducts; dedys
  1. And it was a perfectly fair deduction that even the most complicated adaptations might result from the summation of a long series of simple favourable variations.

  2. It proves beyond question that a knowledge of this region existed among the early trappers, and confirms our previous deduction that the wide range of the fur business could not have left it unexplored.

  3. This theory was a direct deduction from observations upon the Great Geyser of Iceland, and has been experimentally illustrated by artificial examples.

  4. In the deduction which proves the identity of gravity with the central force of the solar system, all the three are found.

  5. He looks upon the social science as essentially consisting of generalizations from history, verified, not originally suggested, by deduction from the laws of human nature.

  6. It is hardly necessary again to repeat, that, as in every other deductive science, verification a posteriori must proceed pari passu with deduction a priori.

  7. But in order that this should happen, we must be able, either by deduction or experiment, to obtain both the instances which the Method of Difference requires.

  8. From this there is no larger deduction than that the Sonata probably had its origin about 1798.

  9. Hence the deduction which Kalischer makes ("Vossische Zeitung," No.

  10. That Beethoven valued the work highly is a fair deduction from the fact that he published it soon after its composition and authorized the publication of an arrangement for Pianoforte and Viola which he had revised.

  11. Her experience has led to a hasty deduction that the defensive at sea for even a weaker Power is an unmixed evil.

  12. This treatise, in the form in which it has come down to us, contains only three propositions; the second, being an easy deduction from Props.

  13. A belief so general, one would think, must rest on indisputable facts, and be a logical deduction from them.

  14. In their transactions from hour to hour, more or less of deduction from pure gratification is caused on one or other side by imperfect fitness to the requirements.

  15. And so, too, is it with the projectile: determination of its course by deduction from mechanical laws, primarily ignores all deviations caused by its shape and by the resistance of the air.

  16. In this manner a deduction is often made at once of twenty or thirty feet, or even more, from their height.

  17. Chain cables shall be subject to a deduction of one-sixth only.

  18. No deduction to be made in respect of old material which is repaired without being replaced by new, and provisions and stores which have not been in use.

  19. After that period a deduction of one-third shall be made, with the following exceptions:-- Anchors shall be allowed in full.

  20. Nails, felt and labour metalling are subject to a deduction of one-third.

  21. No deduction shall be made in respect of provisions and stores which had not been in use.

  22. From first to last this deduction is one process which may be said to have for its object to determine "the conditions of self-hood or egoity.

  23. Here the process of deduction is carried a step further.

  24. With greater justice we might refer to it as a profound deduction from the principle of the uniformity of nature.

  25. It was in all probability a scientific deduction from the observed character of meteoric stones.

  26. It is a necessary deduction from the facts of the outer world of nature and the primary intuitions of the inner world of reason--a logical deduction from the self-evident truths given in sense, consciousness, and reason.

  27. We know what rests upon reason;" that is, whatever we obtain by deduction or induction, whatever is capable of explication and proof, is knowledge.

  28. It is thus clear that Aristotle makes deduction necessarily dependent upon induction.

  29. Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slicking specimen of the London slavey.

  30. We may fairly conclude that the delusion which modern criticism has dispelled was not intentionally called into being by the navigators, but was rather the deduction drawn from too narrow premises by credulous Europe.

  31. Still, this peninsular character was a deduction from imagined necessity rather than a conviction from fact.

  32. Observation proves them to interact; but, in passing from the one to the other, we meet a blank which the logic of deduction is unable to fill.

  33. It seems to me a deduction from the completeness of the celebrated Thomas Young, that he was unable to appreciate natural scenery.

  34. To prove or disprove the induction, we must resort to deduction and experiment.

  35. Observation proves that they interact, but in passing from one to the other, we meet a blank which mechanical deduction is unable to fill.

  36. Here, then, is a deduction which can be immediately submitted to experiment.

  37. In the study of Physics, induction and deduction are perpetually wedded to each other.

  38. Compare these motions with the corresponding states of consciousness, and an empirical nexus might be established; but 'we try to soar in a vacuum when we endeavour to pass by logical deduction from the one to the other.

  39. The intuitions from which mathematical deduction starts are highly generic notions drawn from observation.

  40. The flight of science is merely longer from perception to perception, and its deduction more accurate of meaning from meaning and purpose from purpose.

  41. The direct purpose of deduction is to elucidate an idea, to develop an import, and nothing can be more irrelevant in this science than whether the conclusion is verified in nature or not.

  42. It is the evident ideal of physics, in every department, to attain such an insight into causes that the effects actually given may be thence deduced; and deduction is another name for dialectic.

  43. The result of this meditative hilarity was summed up in a somewhat grave and thoughtful deduction as she walked slowly back to the cabin: "I do believe I'm the first woman that that boy ever kissed.

  44. If it is not, I must submit with a sigh to this new deduction of two or three hundred pounds from the poor price of poor Lenborough.

  45. Pray who pays the tax, the buyer or the seller, and what deduction will occur on the gross sum?

  46. It happens unluckily enough that this year there will be an extraordinary deduction (at least one hundred guineas) of the fine which is paid every seven years for the renewal of Horn farm.

  47. I suppose about L550 per annum, which allows for outgoings, including repairs of sea-walls and every deduction but moderately--they have been of late years somewhat immoderate.

  48. Deduction without verification is undoubtedly the very light that never was on sea or land!

  49. The exclusive employment of either deduction or induction will yield only half results in the social sciences.

  50. The debate here is over the question whether deduction or induction is the proper method of investigation in the social sciences.

  51. Now I am not concerned to deny the value of this summary deduction for certain purposes.

  52. I do not see how the deduction is to be made out.

  53. Common Sense, however, seems rather to regard it as immediately certain without any such deduction that we owe special dues of kindness to those who stand in special relations to us.

  54. The custom was adopted by the railways of paying for the use of these cars by making an allowance of so much a mile as a deduction from the established tariffs.

  55. Under such conditions an enhanced freight rate is a positive deduction from profits without any gain to the consumer.

  56. Not when you have Mr. Burnham's distinguished powers of deduction to assist you, surely, Mr. Ewart?

  57. We must above all guard against the scholastic temptation of arriving by deduction at the products of historic activity which are displayed in art and in religion.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deduction" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
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