Abduction and Induction

By Peter A. Flach, A. Kakas. 2000

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Can network analysis transform psychopathology? (2016, unknown): “Progressively sophisticated methods, combined with data from other sources, can support a causal abductive inference (Peirce, 1901/1940) or inference to the best explanation (Harman, 1965), just as they do in epidemiology.”
A Review of Data Fusion Techniques (2013, methodology): “Abductive reasoning, or inferring the best explanation, is a reasoning method in which a hypothesis is chosen under the assumption that in case it is true, it explains the observed event most accurately [65].”
Forage for Thought: Mobilizing Codes in the Movement for Grass-fed Meat and Dairy Products (2008, unknown): “Our analytic approach is best described as analytic abduction (Peirce, 1955), an iteration between empirical data and preexisting theoretical constructs (Snow, Morrill, and Anderson, 2003).”
Information fusion for wireless sensor networks: Methods, models, and classifications (2007, methodology): “Abduction, or inference to the best explanation, is a reasoning method in which we choose the hypothesis that would, if true, best explain an observed evidence [Peirce 1955].”