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ABDUCTION
Reasoning that involves seeking the controlling states of affairs (causes) from the resulting states of affairs (effects) by application of a law (or law-like statement). Abduction is widely used in the explanation of past events.
[See alsodeduction, induction, retrodiction, theory]
Swansea University
10.4135/9781446247501.n11
and (2009) Explaining the past: Abductive and Bayesian reasoning. The Holocene19: 329–334.
and (1988) Theory of Earth science.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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