What is the difference between adduce and deduce?
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To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
:* Reasons ... were adduced on both sides. - .
:* Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration. - .
:* Whoever in discussion adduces authority, uses not reason but memory. -
:* For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, -
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
Deduce is a related term of adduce.
In transitive terms the difference between adduce and deduce
is that adduce is to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege while deduce is to reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises.adduce
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* present * allege * advance * cite * quote * assign * urge * name * mentionReferences
* ----deduce
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- 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.