All 4 Uses of
deduce
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- It took me more than a week to deduce from the evidence around me that everything before my waking up was a dream and everything afterward was reality.†
Part 1 *deduce = conclude by reasoning
- The "object" is an intellectual construct deduced from the qualities.†
Part 3deduced = concluded by reasoning
- The very existence of subject and object themselves is deduced from the Quality event.†
Part 3
- From these hypotheses he deduces a series of theorems among which it's impossible to find any contradiction, and he constructs a geometry whose faultless logic is inferior in nothing to that of the Euclidian geometry.†
Part 3deduces = concludes by reasoning
Definition:
conclude by reasoning -- especially reasoning from the general to the particular