All 9 Uses of
deduction
in
War and Peace
- Along that line of thought such a deduction is indubitable, as indubitable as the deduction Voltaire made in jest (without knowing what he was jesting at) when he saw that the Massacre of St. Bartholomew was due to Charles IX's stomach being deranged.†
Chpt 10
- Along that line of thought such a deduction is indubitable, as indubitable as the deduction Voltaire made in jest (without knowing what he was jesting at) when he saw that the Massacre of St. Bartholomew was due to Charles IX's stomach being deranged.†
Chpt 10
- It needs no critical exertion to reduce utterly to dust any deductions drawn from history.†
Chpt 11
- For a Frenchman that deduction was indubitable.†
Chpt 11 *
- He heard what they said, but did not understand the meaning of the words and made no kind of deduction from or application of them.†
Chpt 12
- This something was a most subtle spiritual deduction from a conversation with Karataev the day before.†
Chpt 14
- Natasha and Pierre, left alone, also began to talk as only a husband and wife can talk, that is, with extraordinary clearness and rapidity, understanding and expressing each other's thoughts in ways contrary to all rules of logic, without premises, deductions, or conclusions, and in a quite peculiar way.†
Chpt 15
- The incontestable proof of this deduction is that, however many commands were issued, the event does not take place unless there are other causes for it, but as soon as an event occurs—be it what it may—then out of all the continually expressed wishes of different people some will always be found which by their meaning and their time of utterance are related as commands to the events.†
Chpt 15
- But the same series of experiments and arguments proves to him that the complete freedom of which he is conscious in himself is impossible, and that his every action depends on his organization, his character, and the motives acting upon him; yet man never submits to the deductions of these experiments and arguments.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(deduction as in: logical deduction) a logical conclusion; or reasoning from the general to the particular