Quotes About Deduction

There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.

The trouble with computers, she thought, was that they had no intuitive senses. Only deductive ones. You had to ask the right question.

The case called for plain, old-fashioned police leg work!

reason Amazon can take on such a slow, inefficient workforce," noted one itinerant worker on her blog, Tales from the Rampage. "Since they are getting us off government assistance for almost three months of the year, we are a tax deduction for them.

Oh, I'm interested in everything, Joe. That's why I'm a bloody brilliant detective.

An inspector's role was strategic. Except that she'd always been seduced by the detail. She told herself she'd be back at the station before lunchtime.

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.

Sometimes one must make extended conclusions from limited data.

Robert Galbraith

Judging by the lopsided way she was hunched, with one hand buried deep under the lapel of her coat, Strike deduced that he had saved her by grabbing a substantial part of her left breast.

The apostolic model of exposition of, reflection upon, and deduction from Scripture supports our engagement in the theological enterprise. If we are to help our generation understand the Scriptures, we too must deduce and arrange conclusions from what we have gained from our exegetical labors in Scripture and be ready to "dialogue" with men. Engagement in and the result of this task is theology.

If a building is a historical building, the government may give you a tax credit, which is far better than a tax deduction, to improve your investment

Induction means really the process of coming to conclusions on the basis of observation. Deduction is the process of coming to conclusions on the basis of earlier abstractions.

A necessary complement to induction is deduction, the standard example of which is: "All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal." The

All that is observable in a man-that is to say his actions and such of his spiritual existence as can be deduced from his actions-falls into the domain of history.

I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Purposes are deduced from behavior, not from rhetoric or stated goals.

If information-based relationships are hard to see, functions or purposes are even harder. A system's function or purpose is not necessarily spoken, written, or expressed explicitly, except through the operation of the system. The best way to deduce the system's purpose is to watch for a while to see how the system behaves.

This is classic data mining. You draw a conclusion and then mine the data retrospectively to find support for it. You invariably do.

to keep believing in life, until you're sure of death, it's the way a detective should be." - Kogoro Mouri, Detective Conan

Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.