Daily Archives: March 3, 2016

Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 9

Re: Beyond Experiment • Scott Church Let me just say again that abduction is not “inference to the best explanation”.  That gloss derives from a later attempt to rationalize Peirce’s idea and it has led to a whole literature of … Continue reading

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