Dear Terry, I would use Jon's definition as a good description for "an educated guess". An educated guess may also be used to describe abduction, as done so in Stanford's entry on Peirce: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce/ Best, -- *Stefanie Di Russo* PhD Student Faculty of Design Swinburne University *twitter:* @stefdirusso <https://twitter.com/#!/stefdirusso> *linkedin: public *profile <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/stefanie-di-russo/35/16/a84> ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------