Abduce vs Deduce - What's the difference?
abduce | deduce |
(obsolete) To draw; to conduct away; to take away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part; to move a limb out away from the center of the body;abduct.
To draw a conclusion, especially in metanalysis; to deduce.
To reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises.
* Alexander Pope
* John Locke
* Sir Walter Scott
(obsolete) To take away; to deduct; to subtract.
(obsolete, Latinism) To lead forth.
* Selden
In transitive terms the difference between abduce and deduce
is that abduce is to draw a conclusion, especially in metanalysis; to deduce while deduce is to reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises.As verbs the difference between abduce and deduce
is that abduce is to draw; to conduct away; to take away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part; to move a limb out away from the center of the body;abduct while deduce is to reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises.abduce
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Verb
(abduc)- If we abduce the eye unto either corner, the object will not duplicate. - Sir T. Browne
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deduce
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Verb
- O goddess, say, shall I deduce my rhymes / From the dire nation in its early times?
- Reasoning is nothing but the faculty of deducing unknown truths from principles already known.
- See what regard will be paid to the pedigree which deduces your descent from kings and conquerors.
- to deduce a part from the whole
- (Ben Jonson)
- He should hither deduce a colony.