Inductions's Good Twin

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Please have a look at this article outlining logical abduction, a version of induction worked out by C.S. Peirce.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abductive_reasoning

Abduction is closer to Newton's rules for natural philosophy than the usual enumerative induction. It is at the heart of what I would call scientific induction which is the only way we have of getting past a finite collection of facts to a set of principles, causes and explanations.

Incidentally, C.S. Peirce is probably the best American philosopher but he is highly under-appreciated.

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