Herleitung — meaning in English
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English meaning
- deduction noun An amount subtracted from a total, such as from wages or taxable income.
- derivation noun A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
- illation noun The act of inferring or concluding, especially from a set of premises; a conclusion, a deduction.
Senses
Herleitung is used for these senses in English:
- deduction (logic) A process of reasoning that moves from the general to the specific, in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the premises presented, so that the conclusion cannot be false if the premises are true.
- illation The act of inferring or concluding, especially from a set of premises; a conclusion, a deduction.
deduction — full definition
- noun An amount subtracted from a total, such as from wages or taxable income.
- noun A conclusion reached through logical reasoning, moving from general principles to a specific result; also the reasoning process itself.
derivation — full definition
- noun A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
- noun The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.
- noun The act of tracing origin or descent; an instance thereof (for example, an etymology).
- noun Forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes to it.