adduce meaning
EN[-uːs]- VerbSGadducesPRadducingPT, PPadduced
- (transitive) 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. - Thomas Babington Macaulay. Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration. - Thomas de Quincey. Whoever in discussion adduces authority, uses not reason but memory. - Leonardo da Vinci For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, - Charles Darwin
- (transitive) To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
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- Unless the actualist can adduce reasons to believe an explanation for @’s actuality, therefore, she will be at a disadvantage to the possibilist who believes all worlds to be on metaphysical par.
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