Johanna's example of Holmes deducing something or other illustrates how 
tricky the pair of words is.  On the one hand, he brings together a set of 
facts and induces therefrom a conclusion as in 'I see, my dear fellow, from 
your rough hands, your rasping cough, your wheezing and the coal dust in 
your eyes that you are a miner.'   On the other hand, stretching it a bit, I 
suppose one could say that Holmes has a set of rules of thumb such as 'rough 
hands come from manual work' and 'a rasping cough and wheezing' is a symptom 
of miners.   He then applies them to the facts before his eyes and ears and 
draws together the conclusions from which he induces...Then again, maybe he 
deduces...

This is probably why in applied linguistics the terms 'implicit' and 
'explicit' have replaced the troublesome pair.

Ron Sheen 

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