Just to add that I've noticed Ken spelling Peirce correctly.
In my previous posts I spelt him as Pierce, which is wrong. But it's a common mistake...
Jude
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Dear Terry and all,
Abduction is essentially a mode of forming hypotheses. Technically, abduction is “inference to best explanation.” This entails many issues — with room for debate. The Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy offers an excellent article on abduction, with a good reference list and sources of additional information:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/abduction/
While C. S. Peirce wrote at length on abduction, he was not the first to do so earlier or since. The phenomenon has long been described in different ways. The crucial issue is that abduction is a logic of discovery. Abductive inference is not a logic of proof — one requires other means to determine the validity or facticity of abductive inference.
National Institute of Education (Singapore) http://www.nie.edu.sg
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