Noun
Act or process of deducing or inferring.
Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as, the deduction of the subtrahend from the minuend.
That which is deduced or drawn from premises by a process of reasoning; an inference; a conclusion.
That which is deducted; the part taken away; abatement; as, a deduction from the yearly rent.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWherever Mathematics is mixed up with anything, which is outside its field, you will find attempts to demonstrate these merely conventional propositions a priori, and it will be your task to find out the false deduction in each case. Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate. George Henry Lewes
The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them. Albert Einstein
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. Albert Einstein
There's nothing like deduction. We've determined everything about our problem but the solution. Isaac Asimov
No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction. American Proverb