Speculate vs Deduce - What's the difference?
speculate | deduce |
To think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to consider, to deliberate or cogitate.
* Hawthorne
To make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture.
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, title= (intransitive, business, finance) To make a risky trade in the hope of making a profit; to venture or gamble.
To reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises.
* Alexander Pope
* John Locke
* Sir Walter Scott
(obsolete) To take away; to deduct; to subtract.
(obsolete, Latinism) To lead forth.
* Selden
As verbs the difference between speculate and deduce
is that speculate is to think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to consider, to deliberate or cogitate while deduce is to reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises.speculate
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Verb
(speculat)- It is remarkable that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society.
Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}
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Verb
- O goddess, say, shall I deduce my rhymes / From the dire nation in its early times?
- Reasoning is nothing but the faculty of deducing unknown truths from principles already known.
- See what regard will be paid to the pedigree which deduces your descent from kings and conquerors.
- to deduce a part from the whole
- (Ben Jonson)
- He should hither deduce a colony.