Answer: A) reasoning from several particular examples to establish a general principle.
Explanation: the denotation of a word is its literal meaning, the definition that we can find in a dictionary, a word can have several denotations (or definitions). The denotation of the word "deduction" is "the process of using the knowledge or information you have in order to understand something or form an opinion" from the given options, the definition that best explains the term "deduction" is the corresponding to option A.
