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
Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | Editor-in-Chief | 设计 She Ji. The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation | Published by Elsevier in Cooperation with Tongji University Press | Launching in 2015
Chair Professor of Design Innovation Studies | College of Design and Innovation | Tongji University | Shanghai, China ||| University Distinguished Professor | Centre for Design Innovation | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia
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