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What does abductive mean?

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Adjective
  1. (anatomy) Related or pertaining to abductor muscles and their movement. [Mid 19th century.]
  2. (logic) Characterizing a logical process as being one of abduction or inference. [Early 20th century.]
  3. (rare) Abducting, pertaining to an abduction (a kidnapping).
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By juxtaposing Popper against Nietzsche, I would outline an abductive system which connects individual perspectivism with scientific reality.
It should be noted that the abductive method is associated with the pragmatist school of philosophy, which does not hold a realist view of knowledge.
Finally, we give a weaker notion of abduction and abductive reasoning and show the later to be equivalent to filter entailment under less restrictive conditions.
The abductive reasoning is conjectural: in our example, it is possible to imagine that an unexpected activation of the automatic watering system is responsible for the state of the lawn.
Holmes's primary intellectual detection method is abductive reasoning.
As mentioned, there is widespread agreement that people frequently rely on abductive reasoning.

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