Abductive reasoning
FORM OF LOGICAL INFERENCE THAT SEEKS THE BEST CONCLUSION THAT EXPLAINS A SET OF GIVEN OBSERVATIONS
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Abductive reasoning (also called abduction,For example: abductive inference, or retroduction) is a form of logical inference formulated and advanced by American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce beginning in the last third of the 19th century. It starts with an observation or set of observations and then seeks the simplest and most likely conclusion from the observations.