Constructive vs Abduction - What's the difference?
constructive | abduction |
Relating to or causing construction.
Carefully considered and meant to be helpful.
(legal) Imputed by law; created to give legal effect to something for equitable reasons, as with constructive notice or a constructive trust.
Leading away; a carrying away.
(physiology) The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; the movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body. (rfex)
(logic) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major premise is evident, but the minor is only probable.
* 2005 , Ronnie Cann, Ruth Kempson, Lutz Marten, The Dynamics of Language, an Introduction , page 256:
The wrongful, and usually forcible, carrying off of a human being.
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As an adjective constructive
is relating to or causing construction.As a noun abduction is
leading away; a carrying away .constructive
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Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (carefully considered and meant to be helpful) productiveAntonyms
* (relating to or causing construction) destructive * (carefully considered and meant to be helpful) destructiveDerived terms
* constructive criticism * constructive dismissal * constructive eviction * constructive notice * constructive logic * constructive trust * constructively * constructiveness * constructivism * deconstructive * inconstructive * unconstructive ----abduction
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(wikipedia abduction)Noun
(en noun)- The significance of such a step is that it is not morphologically triggered: it is a step of abduction , and what is required here is a meta-level process of reasoning.
- the abduction of a child
