Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of abducing or abducting.
- noun In logic, a syllogism of which the major premise is evident or known, while the minor, though not evident, is as credible as or more credible than the conclusion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away.
- noun (Physiol.) The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.
- noun (Law) The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being.
- noun (Logic) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major is evident, but the minor is only probable.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the criminal act of capturing and carrying away by force a family member; if a man's wife is abducted it is a crime against the family relationship and against the wife
- noun (physiology) moving of a body part away from the central axis of the body
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Examples
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The term abduction is also sometimes used to just mean the generation of hypotheses to explain observations or conclusions, but the former definition is more common both in philosophy and computing.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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The term abduction is also sometimes used to just mean the generation of hypotheses to explain observations or conclusions, but the former definition is more common both in philosophy and computing.
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The word abduction brought a blink and a deep swallow.
The Town Chuck Hogan 2004
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There has been an increase in abduction, forced marriage, and forcible conversion by extremists in rural areas.
Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza: Troubled History of Domestic Violence Legislation in Pakistan Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza 2010
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There has been an increase in abduction, forced marriage, and forcible conversion by extremists in rural areas.
Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza: Troubled History of Domestic Violence Legislation in Pakistan Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza 2010
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But before long, doubts arise about the couples story, and as forensic details unfold, the abduction is exposed as a hoax.
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“One of the most psychologically devastating aspects of family abduction is the sudden, unexpected rupture,” Liss Haviv, the executive director of Take Root, an organization composed of formerly abducted children, explained to me recently.
The Snatchback 2009
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There has been an increase in abduction, forced marriage, and forcible conversion by extremists in rural areas.
Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza: Troubled History of Domestic Violence Legislation in Pakistan Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza 2010
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There has been an increase in abduction, forced marriage, and forcible conversion by extremists in rural areas.
Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza: Troubled History of Domestic Violence Legislation in Pakistan Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza 2010
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There has been an increase in abduction, forced marriage, and forcible conversion by extremists in rural areas.
Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza: Troubled History of Domestic Violence Legislation in Pakistan Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza 2010
garyth123 commented on the word abduction
or abductive reasoning
December 15, 2008
ruzuzu commented on the word abduction
"The term “abduction” was coined by Charles Sanders Peirce in his work on the logic of science. He introduced it to denote a type of non-deductive inference that was different from the already familiar inductive type."
-- From the "Peirce on Abduction" section of the online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/abduction/peirce.html)
October 19, 2021