adduce vs deduce vs deduct
Definitions
verb
- advance evidence for
Examples
The fundamental silliness of my article lies, however, not in its numerous solecisms but in the dubiousness of its central thesis and of the " reasoning’ adduced to support it.
He later (2003 and 2005, 21-5) adduced a specific instance of such a change in emphasis, showing that Ammonius glosses over the doctrine of ˜divine names™, their natural origin and theurgic efficacy.
We must investigate what produces solecisms, and not merely adduce examples.
Definitions
verb
- reason by deduction; establish by deduction
- conclude by reasoning; in logic
Examples
First, we have in the bottom from which the mere structure of an ovary is deduced, the normal dicarpellary structure, and there is in addition a tendency in excess toward a parietal placentation.
The principle of mathematical induction, claimed Poincaré, cannot be logically deduced.
In this paper, the general solution for plane problem of elastic mechanics in polar coordinate system is deduced by separate variable method.
Definitions
verb
- retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments
- reason by deduction; establish by deduction
- make a subtraction
Examples
In each case the company's contributions are deductible for tax, and income on the investments is free of tax.
No deduction in pay is made for absence due to illness.
Alimony (also called spousal support) is tax deductible to the payor and taxable income to the payee.
