See also:DEDUCTION (from See also:Lat. deducere, to take or See also:lead from or out of, derive)
, a See also:term used in See also:common parlance for the See also:process of taking away from, or subtracting (as in See also:mathematics), and specially for the argumentative process of arriving at a conclusion from See also:evidence, i.e. for any See also:kind of inference.i In this sense it includes both arguments from particular facts and those from See also:general See also:laws to particular cases
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In See also:logic it is generally used in See also:contradiction to " See also:induction " for a kind of mediate inference, in which a conclusion (often itself called the See also:deduction) is regarded as . following necessarily under certain fixed . laws from premises
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This, the most common, See also:form of deduction is the See also:syllogism (q.v.; see also LOGIC), which consists in taking a general principle and deriving from it facts which are necessarily involved in it
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This use of deduction is of comparatively See also:modern origin; it was originally used as the See also:equivalent of See also:Aristotle's /rn-aywyi (see See also:Prior Analytics, B See also:xxv.)
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The modern use of deduction is practically identical with the Aristotelian
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1 Two forms of the verb are used,- " deduce " and deduct originally synonymous, they are now distinguished, " deduce being confined to arguments, " deduct " to quantities
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clear sanguine complexion, with a See also:long See also:- BEARD (A.S. beard, O. H. and Mod. Ger. Bart, Dan. beard, Icel. bar, rim, edge, beak of a ship, &c., O. Slay. barda, Russ. barodd. Cf. Welsh barf, Lat.. barba, though, according to the New English Dictionary, the connexion is for phonetic reasons doubtful)
- BEARD, WILLIAM HOLBROOK (1825-1900)
beard as See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white as See also:milk—a very handsome See also:man—tall and slender
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He wore a goune like an artist's. goiine with See also:hanging sleeves." See also:Dee's See also:Speculum or See also:mirror, a piece of solid See also:pink-tinted See also:glass about the See also:size of an See also:orange, is preserved in the See also:British Museum
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His See also:principal See also:works are—Propaedeumata aphorislica (See also:London, 1558) ; Monas hieroglyphica (See also:Antwerp, 1564) ; Epistola ad Fredericum Commandinum (See also:Pesaro, 1570) ; See also:Preface Mathematical to the See also:English See also:Euclid (1570) ; See also:Divers Annotations and Inventions added after the tenth See also:book of English Euclid (1570) ; Epistola praefixa Ephemeridibus Joannis Feldi, a
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1557; Parallaticae commentationis praxeosque See also:nucleus quidam (London, 1573)
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The See also:catalogue of his printed and published works is to be found in his Compendious See also:- REHEARSAL (from " rehearse," to say over again, repeat, recount, O.Fr. rehercer, from re, again, and hercer, to harrow, cf. " hearse," the original meaning being to rake or go over the same ground again as with a harrow)
Rehearsal, as well as in his See also:letter to See also:Archbishop See also:Whitgift
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A See also:manuscript of Dee's, See also:relating what passed for many years between him and some See also:spirits, was edited by Meric See also:Casaubon and published in 1659
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The Private See also:Diary of Dr See also:John Dee, and the Catalogue of his Library of See also:Manuscripts, edited by J
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Halliwell, was published by the See also:Camden Society in 1842
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There is a See also:life of Dee in See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith's Vitae illustrium virorum
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(1707); English See also:translation by W
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A
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Ayton, the Life of John Dee (1909)
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