Abduction, or inference to the best explanation, is a method of
reasoning in which one chooses the hypothesis that would, if true, best explain the relevant evidence. Abductive reasoning starts from a set of accepted
facts and infers to their most likely, or best,
explanations. The term abduction is also sometimes used to just mean the generation of
hypotheses to explain observations or conclusions, but the former definition is more common both in
philosophy and
computing.
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