Believe
Believe verb - To regard as right or true.
Usage example: only the most naive car buyer would have believed the salesman's claim that the dealership was actually losing money on the deal
Deduce and believe are semantically related. in think topic. In some cases you can use "Deduce" instead a verb "Believe".
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French folk versions (such as this one), which do not feature the red hat, have the heroine deduce the problem before the wolf eats her, and escape by saying she needs to visit the bathroom; folklorists believe this is the older version.
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He also realizes our heroes' penchant for choosing strategies on the basis of "our enemies can't possibly believe we'd be that crazy", and uses it to deduce that they'll hit the heavily defended shipyards at Bilbringi rather than the less-defended Tangrene.
Source: Literature / The Thrawn Trilogy - In the first season finale, Will Graham is able to deduce that he is being framed because while he might believe he was capable of murdering Abigail Hobbs, he couldn't possibly accept that he also murdered the victims of the copycat killer (a.k.a Hannibal Lecter).
Source: Orgy of Evidence
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