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Deduction vs Valuation - What's the difference?

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Deduction is a related term of valuation.


As nouns the difference between deduction and valuation

is that deduction is deduction (all meanings) while valuation is an estimation of something's worth.

deduction

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • That which is deducted; that which is subtracted or removed
  • A sum that can be removed from tax calculations; something that is written off
  • You might want to donate the old junk and just take the 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.
  • A conclusion; that which is deduced, concluded or figured out
  • He arrived at the deduction that the butler didn't do it.
  • The ability or skill to deduce or figure out; the power of reason
  • Through his powers of deduction , he realized that the plan would never work.

    valuation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An estimation of something's worth.
  • (finance) The process of estimating the market value of a financial asset or liability.
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  • The tax assessor put them in fourteen valuation groups ranging from one two-story brick house and two one-and-a-half-story houses to the largest groups of eighteen two-story houses and twenty-four one-story bungalows.
  • (logic, propositional logic, model theory) An assignment of truth values to propositional variables, with a corresponding assignment of truth values to all propositional formulas with those variables (obtained through the recursive application of truth-valued functions corresponding to the logical connectives making up those formulas).
  • (logic, first-order logic, model theory) A structure, and the corresponding assignment of a truth value to each sentence in the language for that structure.
  • (algebra) A measure of size or multiplicity.
  • (measure theory, domain theory) A map from the class of open sets of a topological space to the set of positive real numbers including infinity.
  • See also

    * (logic) interpretation