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How delightful ... and explanatory ... and useful ... -----Original Message----- From: Practitioner-Researcher [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bob Dick Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 3:20 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Being inclusive. Hello all "Abduction" is used differently by different writers. Possible the most common usage follows C.S. Peirce (pronounced "purse", by the way). In some of his writing he called it "retroduction". I don't have time to look up some of the examples. Most of them go something like this. I observe X, which is surprising. If Y were true, X wouldn't be surprising. Therefore I hypothesise that Y is true, and test the hypothesis. Cheers -- Bob -- +- Bob Dick ------------------------------------------------------+ | bd at uqconnect.net http://www.uqconnect.net/action_research/ | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ "This e-mail is subject to our Disclaimer, to view click http://www.dut.ac.za"