to deduce
- verb
- /dɪˈdjuːs/
- From the evidence presented during the trial, the jury was able to deduce that the defendant was guilty.
- deduce from first principles
- try to deduce
- possible to deduce
You just look for evidence and try to deduce what what it means.
- You just look for evidence and try to deduce what what it means.
- You can't just, strictly speaking, deduce it from what came previously.
- I didn't feel like the future could be deduced from first principle thinking.
- He had seen the the flare and then deduced that this was related to it.
- Better way to learn is to be able to infer, to deduce new information from old.
- So with that, one might logically deduce that out the window goes your bliss.
- So you make up some language, and from that language you deduce some things.
- They calculated it based on equations that I deduced from Einstein's laws of gravity.
- It's a mathematical model, so we deduce what our assumptions indicate.
- What's in an E flat major chord and you can deduce it from that.
- It ought to be possible to deduce that from the shapes of proteins.
- It's not always easy to deduce sort of what's going on in the larger scales, how life works.
- It was clearly, if you were to walk past it, you would immediately be able to deduce this is not a place where I can bring children.
- Understand that fear is a product of what you have analyzed and logically deduced.
- That's what they have deduced is the reason that they're getting the installs that they get.
- And personally I think that's that's the way to go about teaching it to start with the simplest things and deduce the consequences.
Examples
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What can you deduce from that?
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You can't just, strictly speaking, deduce it from what came previously.
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And so you should be able to deduce what this is.
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Ask those customers a series of questions from which we can deduce what matters to them.
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Since you found that blood and hair on the support beam, I would deduce that was the cause of the primary injury.
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And from that we can deduce the way that simple pathways operate.
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Therefore, we can deduce that these characteristics may be an important part of effective consultation.
Academic text (2008) -
Five minutes into the conversation, he had deduced why this should be so.
Fiction book (1990) -
When we have observed the pulsation period precisely, we can deduce the average sound speed throughout the star.
Academic text (1991) -
We will use public choice theory to deduce some plausible explanations.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
To find out a fact by checking or measuring
To decide something after looking at the facts
Understand something from evidence or from what someone says
To think carefully or discuss something to reach a decision
To show that something is likely true because of evidence
To find out for sure by checking the facts
Decide that something is true using evidence
Figure out what happened from obvious facts
Find a result or conclusion by careful thinking
Reach a conclusion by using known facts
To think carefully to find an answer to a problem
To choose what to do after thinking about the options
How Certain
Surface Forms
Etymology
Deduce comes from Latin parts de- 'down' or 'from' and ducere 'to lead'. So to deduce is to be 'led' from facts to a conclusion, which is why it means reaching a conclusion by reasoning.