Abductive reasoning
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Abduction is a method of logical inference introduced by Charles Sanders Peirce which comes prior to induction and deduction for which the colloquial name is to have a "hunch". Abductive reasoning starts when an inquirer considers of a set of seemingly unrelated facts, armed with an intuition that they are somehow connected. The term abduction is commonly presumed to mean the same thing as hypothesis; however, an abduction is actually the process of inference that produces a hypothesis as its end result.
See also
- Abductive logic programming
- Analogy
- Analysis of Competing Hypotheses
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- Charles Sanders Peirce bibliography
- Deductive reasoning
- Defeasible reasoning
- Doug Walton
- Gregory Bateson
- Inductive reasoning
- Inquiry
- List of thinking-related topics
- Logic
- Subjective logic
- Logical reasoning
- Maximum likelihood
- Scientific method
- Sherlock Holmes
- Sign relation
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