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 The channeling of water away from a river or other source.
- illation noun The act of working something out from evidence, or the conclusion reached this way.
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 The channeling of water away from a river or other source.
- noun The process of obtaining something, such as a result or an idea, from an original source.
- noun The tracing of where something, such as a word, first came from.
- noun (linguistics) The creation of a new word by changing an existing word's base or adding a prefix or suffix to it.
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