| Abductive reasoning is not limited to everyday contexts. |
| It should be noted that the abductive method is associated with the pragmatist school of philosophy, which does not hold a realist view of knowledge. |
| From this and from the fact that these theories were mostly arrived at by abductive reasoning, he concludes that abduction must be a reliable rule of inference. |
| It makes use of abductive reasoning, which is fundamentally different from induction and deduction. |
| Finally, we give a weaker notion of abduction and abductive reasoning and show the later to be equivalent to filter entailment under less restrictive conditions. |
| As mentioned, there is widespread agreement that people frequently rely on abductive reasoning. |
