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'''Inference to the Best Explanation''' (IBE) is scientific device of logical reasoning residing on idea that entities, conditions, or processes that have the capability or so called ''causal powers'' to produce the evidence in question constitute better explanations of that evidence than those that are not.<ref name="Signature"/> The method of IBE does not attempt to answer the question ''Why this?'' but the question ''Why this rather than that?''<ref name="Lipton"/>

'''Inference to the Best Explanation''' (IBE) is scientific device of logical reasoning residing on the idea that entities, conditions, or processes that have the capability or so called ''causal powers'' to produce the evidence in question constitute better explanations of that evidence than those that are not.<ref name="Signature"/> The method of IBE does not attempt to answer the question ''Why this?'' but the question ''Why this rather than that?''<ref name="Lipton"/>

Especially in [[historical science]]s, the process of determining the best eplanation necessarily involves generating a list of possible hypotheses. Then, to infer the ''best'' explanation necessarily implies the need to examine and compare competing explanations. None of evidences ultimately prove that the hypothesis is absolutely correct but they provide support for it and place it in contention as a possible best explanation.<ref name="Signature">{{Cite book

Especially in [[historical science]]s, the process of determining the best explanation necessarily involves generating a list of possible hypotheses. Then, to infer the ''best'' explanation necessarily implies the need to examine and compare competing explanations. None of evidences ultimately prove that the hypothesis is absolutely correct but they provide support for it and place it in contention as a possible best explanation.<ref name="Signature">{{Cite book

| author = Meyer, Stephen C.

| author = Meyer, Stephen C.

| title = Signature in the Cell

| title = Signature in the Cell