Difference between Deduction and Reduction

What is the difference between Deduction and Reduction?

Deduction as a noun is that which is deducted; that which is subtracted or removed while Reduction as a noun is the act, process, or result of reducing.

Deduction

Part of speech: noun

Definition: that which is deducted; that which is subtracted or removed a sum that can be removed from tax calculations; something that is written off a conclusion; that which is deduced, concluded or figured out the ability or skill to deduce or figure out; the power of reason a. 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.

Reduction

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act, process, or result of reducing.The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.A reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of oxygen or the addition of hydrogen.The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.The rewriting of an expression into a simpler form.An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.A philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness as pure phenomena. (See phenomenological reduction.)

We hope you now know whether to use Deduction or Reduction in your sentence.

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