deduction

(noun)

The process of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the stated premises; inference by reasoning from the general to the specific.

Related Terms

Examples of deduction in the following topics:

  • The Sociological Approach

    • They do this through induction and deduction.
    • In order to test a theory's validity, they utilize deduction.
    • Deduction is the act of evaluating their theories in light of new data.

  • Health Insurance

    • Some of the essential terms associated with health insurance are premiums, deductibles, co-payments, and explanations of benefits.
    • A deductible is the amount that an insured individual must pay out-of-pocket before the health insurer pays its share.
    • For example, policyholders might have to pay a $500 deductible per year, before the health insurer covers any health care costs.

  • The Role of Government

    • In compulsory insurance models, healthcare is financed from some combination of employees' salary deductions, employers' contributions, and possibly additional state funds.

  • Piaget

    • At this point, the person is capable of hypothetical and deductive reasoning.

  • Formulating the Hypothesis

    • While there is no single way to develop a hypothesis, a useful hypothesis will use deductive reasoning to make predictions that can be experimentally assessed.

  • The Development of Social Science

    • This unity of science as descriptive remained, for example, in the time of Thomas Hobbes who argued that deductive reasoning from axioms created a scientific framework; his book, Leviathan, was a scientific description of a political commonwealth.

  • Theoretical Perspectives on Childhood Socialization

    • This person no longer requires concrete objects to make rational judgements and is capable of hypothetical and deductive reasoning.

  • What is Sociology?

    • They gather data and evaluate their theories in light of the data they collect (a.k.a. deduction).

  • Sociology and Other Social Sciences

    • This unity of science as descriptive remained, for example, in the time of Thomas Hobbes, who argued that deductive reasoning from axioms created a scientific framework.

  • The Scientific Method

    • Sociologists use observations, hypotheses, deductions, and inductions to propose explanations for social phenomena in the form of theories.
    • 3) Prediction (logical deduction from the hypothesis or logical induction from the data)
    • Scientists use whatever they can — their own creativity, ideas from other fields, induction, deduction, systematic guessing, etc. — to imagine possible explanations for a phenomenon under study.
    • A useful quantitative hypothesis will enable predictions, by deductive reasoning, that can be experimentally assessed.