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Wrong, "deduce" means to rule out possibilities, literally deduct them from the space of all possible universes.

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."




This is false. To deduce is to draw (ducere) a conclusion from (de) premisses.


Curios aside here: when pointing out a grammatical error of this sort, what school of English does it rely on? I mean, English has grown to a point where where the British English dictionary does not hold sole authority.




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