Dear Ken
Good summary.
The question that we usually ask as designers is "What if....?" and a new
composition emerges which can then be tested.
with warm regards
M P Ranjan
from my iBook at home
18 February 2015 at 11.10 pm IST
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On 18 February 2015 at 18:45, Ken Friedman <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Someone who is really smart wrote me an off-list note summarising the
> entire issue of abduction in a simple, elegant way:
>
> “Abduction is one of the many ways we come up with hypotheses. These
> hypotheses need to be tested. … Abduction does not provide answers:
> abduction provides questions.”
>
> While I’ve enjoyed the thread, this wraps the conversation up for me. If
> anyone wishes to use the collection of articles I have assembled on
> abduction, drop me a note off-list. As Rolf points out, there is some
> reading to do before we make any progress on these topics here. At this
> point, I am leaving the conversations on abduction, correlation, and
> causality to re-read the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy and the other
> resources noted here.
>
> Warm wishes,
>
> Ken
>
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