adduce

The Latin word adducĕre arrived in Castilian as adduce. East verb It refers to show or wield justifications or evidence about something. For example: "They say that the coach is going to give personal reasons to resign from the team", "The government could argue that the debt is illegitimate so as not to make the payments that correspond to it", "You have all known for a long time what happens in this company: no one can claim that the problem surprised him".

The usual thing is that the idea to adduce is used when someone provides an explanation to defend a certain action or position. It is said that the subject "Adduces" his justification on if everything if his interlocutor does not believe him or is not convinced of the veracity of the things that he affirms.

Suppose a man is late for work. Accused by his boss, the employee claims that, when he was going to the office, his car had a failure and he could not continue the trip. So he had to call a mechanic and ended up running late. By arguing this, the worker hopes that his boss understands that his delay has been unavoidable given the events.

By communicating a rate increase to your customers, a business from telecommunications it can argue that the decision was the consequence of a new tax set 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 by the firm aims to minimize the anger of its subscribers.

Another of the meanings of the word adduce is the following: «carry, send, bring». Although the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy indicates that it is a meaning that is in disuse, 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 the adduction and flexion of the arms takes place"); conducting or transporting water from a basin to a network, a regulating 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 «to carry, to send, to bring» previously exposed as an obsolete 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 due to the fact that it is not usually necessary to use a verb to describe the adduction of Water, since it is not an action carried out by a living being, but rather it occurs continuously through the 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 under way", for example.

On the other hand, it is worth mentioning a very frequent confusion between the verb adduce Y abduct, as well as between their respective nouns, adduction Y abduction. In the case of body movements, we are faced with two antonyms, since abduction consists in moving away from an organ such as a member of the imaginary plane that divides the body into two halves; Similarly, we can say that someone is abducting his arms, or what fails to abduct the hip. The term abduction is also used very frequently to describe the abduction or seizure of a person at the hands of an extraterrestrial being.