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Article in Journal | Posted 22/12/2015
Mcauliffe, William H. (2015). How did Abduction Get Confused with Inference to the Best Explanation?
One of C. S. Peirce's most misunderstood ideas is his notion of abduction, the process of generating and selecting hypotheses to test. Contemporary philosophers of science have falsely cited...