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Term: 
Abduction
Quote: 

Methodeutic has a special interest in Abduction, or the inference which starts a scientific hypothesis. For it is not sufficient that a hypothesis should be a justifiable one. Any hypothesis which explains the facts is justified critically. But among justifiable hypotheses we have to select that one which is suitable for being tested by experiment. There is no such need of a subsequent choice after drawing deductive and inductive conclusions.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1902). Carnegie Institution Correspondence. L [R] 75.
References: 
NEM 4:62
Date of Quote: 
1902
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