Both Uses of
deduction
in
The Fountainhead
- Ralston Holcombe was now sixty-five, to which he added a few years, for the sake of his friends' compliments on his wonderful physique; Mrs. Ralston Holcombe was forty-two, from which she deducted considerably.†
Chpt 1.10 *
- Should you wish to make the inevitable deductions from this basic conception, you may come to conclusions of vast sociological importance.†
Chpt 2.8 *
Definitions:
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(deduction as in: deduction from the bill) an amount subtracted from another amount
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(deduction as in: logical deduction) a logical conclusion; or reasoning from the general to the particular