deduction – n -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.
I'm back and very glad to be back.
Today's word was inspired by yesterday's 'rationication' and by the much earlier entry 'induction.' Wolf, it may be time for us to dive yet again into that Sherlock Holmes omnibus we have on our shelves, an enjoyable exercise I've undertaken periodically since that glorious winter of 1959, when I was first introduced to that greatest of all fictional detectives. (Sorry Auguste, Jane, Nero, Hercule, Perry, and Philip, but he's still the man to beat after better than a century.)
