Adducing consists of showing evidence.
Adduce is a verb that refers to showing or putting forward justifications or evidence about something . The term comes from the Latin word adducĕre .
For example: “They say that the coach is going to give personal reasons to resign from the team” , “The government could claim that the debt is illegitimate in order not to make the payments that correspond to it” , “You have all known for a long time what is happening in this company: no one can claim that the problem surprised them.”
Examples of adduce
Typically, the idea of adducing is used when someone provides an explanation to defend a certain action or position . It is said that the subject "adduces" his justification on his own if his interlocutor does not believe him or is not convinced of the veracity of the things he affirms.
Suppose a man is late for work. Rebuked by his boss, the employee claims that, when he was on his way to the office, his car broke down and he could not continue the trip. That's why he had to call a mechanic and he ended up arriving late. By claiming this, the worker hopes that his boss will understand that his delay has been inevitable given the events.
By informing its customers of a rate increase, a telecommunications company can claim that the decision was the consequence of a new tax imposed by the government. In this way, the company tries to hold the rulers responsible for the price increase that, in reality, the company itself decreed. This justification on the part of the firm aims to minimize the anger of its subscribers.
By adducing, an explanation is provided.
Another meaning
Another meaning of the word adduce is the following: carry, send, bring . Although the RAE dictionary indicates that it is a meaning that is out of use, it has a certain relationship with that of the noun of the same family, adduction . Broadly speaking, we can say that adduction has two meanings: the movement of an organ , such as a limb, so that it approaches the imaginary plane that cuts the body into two absolutely equal parts ( "This is where adduction takes place and flexion of the arms » ); the conduction or transport of water from a basin to a network, a regulation tank or a treatment plant ( "This tunnel has been built for the adduction of water from the stream" ).
If we focus on the second meaning of the word adduction, we can find a connection with the verbs "carry, send, bring" previously exposed as a disused meaning of adduce . Although this contrast between the validity of the noun and the disuse of its corresponding verb may seem arbitrary, it is probably because it is not usually necessary to use a verb to describe the adduction of water , since it is not an action performed by a living being, but is produced continuously through tunnels, channels or pipes manufactured for this purpose; In other words, it is not common to say "we are adducting the river water" but rather "the process of adducting the river water is underway" , for example.
On the other hand, it is worth mentioning a very frequent confusion between the verb adduct and abduct, as well as between their respective nouns, adduction and abduction . In the case of body movements, we are faced with two antonyms, since abduction consists of the removal of an organ such as a member from the imaginary plane that divides the body into two halves; In the same way, we can say that someone " is abducting his arms" , or that " he is unable to abduct his hips" . The term abduction is also frequently used to describe the kidnapping or seizure of a person into the hands of an extraterrestrial being.