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'''Abductive reasoning''' or '''abduction''' infers unseen facts, events, or causes in the past from clues or facts in the present. It is type of reasoning used by [[historical science|historical scientist]] when they reason from clues back to causes.<ref name="OfClues">{{Cite book
| author = Meyer
| title = Of Clues and Causes
| publisher =
| location=
| year= 2008
| isbn =
| pages = 36-76
| url=
| quote= }}</ref> The American philosopher and logician Charles Sanders Peirce was the first to describe it. As he noted, the problem with abductive reasoning is that there is often more than one cause that can explain the same effect. He suggested that a particular abductive hypothesis can be firmly established if it can be shown that it represents the best or only explanation of the "manifest effects" in question.<ref name="Signature">{{Cite book
| author = Meyer, Stephen C.
| title = Signature in the Cell
| publisher = HarperOne
| location= New York
| year= 2008
| isbn = 978-0-06-147279-2
| pages = 153-156
| url=http://books.google.no/books?id=RUGKBdKawDUC&dq=signature+in+the+cell&hl=en&sa=X&ei=k4o9T-HHFaSF4gTYqpSSCA&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAQ
| quote= }}</ref>
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
==See also==
*[[Inductive reasoning]]
*[[Deductive reasoning]]
[[Category:Philosophy of science]]
| author = Meyer
| title = Of Clues and Causes
| publisher =
| location=
| year= 2008
| isbn =
| pages = 36-76
| url=
| quote= }}</ref> The American philosopher and logician Charles Sanders Peirce was the first to describe it. As he noted, the problem with abductive reasoning is that there is often more than one cause that can explain the same effect. He suggested that a particular abductive hypothesis can be firmly established if it can be shown that it represents the best or only explanation of the "manifest effects" in question.<ref name="Signature">{{Cite book
| author = Meyer, Stephen C.
| title = Signature in the Cell
| publisher = HarperOne
| location= New York
| year= 2008
| isbn = 978-0-06-147279-2
| pages = 153-156
| url=http://books.google.no/books?id=RUGKBdKawDUC&dq=signature+in+the+cell&hl=en&sa=X&ei=k4o9T-HHFaSF4gTYqpSSCA&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAQ
| quote= }}</ref>
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
==See also==
*[[Inductive reasoning]]
*[[Deductive reasoning]]
[[Category:Philosophy of science]]