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shared by Alex K on 21 Feb 11 - Cached

That tool is abductive reasoning
- Alex K on 21 Feb 11
  
  abductive = laut "Leo" eine nahe liegende Vermutung ohne logische Beweiskraft
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">abductive = laut "Leo" eine nahe liegende Vermutung ohne logische Beweiskraft</div>
  
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The vast majority of students are exposed to formal logic only by inference and then only to the two dominant forms of logic — deductive reasoning and inductive reasoning.
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Formal logic isn’t systematically taught in our North American educational system, except to students of philosophy or the history of science.
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Deductive logic — the logic of what must be — reasons from the general to the specific. If the general rule is that all crows are black, and I see a brown bird, I can declare deductively that this bird is not a crow.
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Inductive logic — the logic of what is operative — reasons from the specific to the general. If I study sales per square foot across a thousand stores and find a pattern that suggests stores in small towns generate significantly higher sales per square foot than stores in cities, I can inductively declare that small towns are my more valuable market
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Whether they realize it or not, designers live in Peirce’s world of abduction
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Dewey began to explore the limits of formal declarative logic — that is, inductive and deductive reasoning.
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