Sentences with phrase «reason by deduction»

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By nearly doubling the standard deduction, they gave a lot of taxpayers a good reason to not itemize their deductions.

Under Section 162 (m), the amount of compensation earned by the Chief Executive Officer, and any executive whose compensation is required to be reported to stockholders by reason of such executive being among the three other most highly - paid executive officers of the Company (excluding the Chief Financial Officer) in the year for which a deduction is claimed by the Company (including its subsidiaries) is limited to $ 1 million per person, except that compensation that is performance - based will be excluded for purposes of calculating the amount of compensation subject to the $ 1 million limitation.

For example, after trying a number of definitions of mathematics, Whitehead settled in that article on Russell's definition of mathematics as the «science concerned with the logical deduction of consequences from the general premises of all reasoning» (MAT 291), In fact, the article «Mathematics» is the most accessible, most approving and best summary of Principia Mathematica ever done by Whitehead.

It is too simple, consequently, to see empirical theology as simply another theology, basing thought on experiences rather than on schemes or reasons, proposing that generalization proceed by induction rather than by deduction, advancing a pluralism in place of a monism, or a naturalism in place of a transcendentalism.

Even the mystery of God is forgotten, says Heidegger; the God of Descartes is a deduction of the ego, serving as a secondary certification of the verity of experience and defined as a causa sui precisely because even divine being must now be certified by modern reason's understanding of causality.

Thesis topic must be justified; claims and conclusions must be supported by experiments or reasoned arguments and deductions.

The income may be offset, at least in part, by a special deduction for estate tax paid on «income in respect of a decedent,» but for various reasons the beneficiaries may not receive the full benefit of this deduction.

The big reason for this adjusted capital cost allowance for each of the business assets is that the CRA considers all depreciation incurred by the business assets as one annual cost borne by the business — so all depreciation on all assets is calculated, added up and the total depreciation (known in tax terms as the capital cost allowance on an asset) is then used as a tax deduction to reduce taxable earnings.

If therefore the student in our laws hath formed both his sentiments and style, by perusal and imitation of the purest classical writers, among whom the historians and orators will best deserve his regard; if he can reason with precision, and separate argument from fallacy, by the clear simple rules of pure unsophisticated logic; if he can fix his attention, and steadily pursue truth through any the most intricate deduction, by the use of mathematical demonstrations; if he has enlarged his conceptions of nature and art, by a view of the several branches of genuine, experimental, philosophy; if he has impressed on his mind the sound maxims of the law of nature, the best and most authentic foundation of human laws; if, lastly, he has contemplated those maxims reduced to a practical system in the laws of imperial Rome; if he has done this, or any part of it, (though all may be easily done under as able instructors as ever graced any feats of learning) a student thus qualified may enter upon the study of the law with incredible advantage and reputation.

User has a period of 30 days from the date of receipt of the policy document to review the terms and conditions of the policy and where the User disagrees to any of those terms or conditions, he has the option to return the policy stating the reasons for his objection, when he shall be entitled to a refund of the premium paid, subject only to a deduction of a proportionate risk premium for the period on cover and the expenses incurred by the insurer on medical examination of the proposer and stamp duty charges.

For a 50 % deduction to be allowed there has to be a business reason for the meal, which by implication would include a business colleague.