[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["the act or process of deducting; subtraction.", "something that is or may be deducted:She took deductions for a home office and other business expenses from her taxes.", "the act or process of deducing.", "something that is deduced:His astute deduction was worthy of Sherlock Holmes.", "Logic.a process of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the premises presented, so that the conclusion cannot be false if the premises are true.a conclusion reached by this process.Compare induction(def4) induction(def4).", "a process of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the premises presented, so that the conclusion cannot be false if the premises are true.", "a conclusion reached by this process.Compare induction(def4) induction(def4)."]}]