Yes Holmes was doing abduction, in those indtances where he was, as the scholastics would say, saving the appearances. meaning, when he was coming out with a possible explanation of how the present phenomenon was caused. typically an inference towards the cause of an effect relies on abduction in this sense. Unless the aergument proceeds by elminination, in which case Holmes is able to infer with deductive certainlty, given that the other causes are imposiible, that this particulat cause is the only cause we can admit. this is deductive.
Jude
National Institute of Education (Singapore) http://www.nie.edu.sg
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