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Abductive reasoning

About: Abductive reasoning is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1917 publications have been published within this topic receiving 44645 citations. The topic is also known as: abduction & abductive inference.


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TL;DR: It is proposed that the development of ecological site products is a dynamic task of defining concepts and processes that best explain the available data (i.e., abductive reasoning), and as such a more iterative approach to their development is needed than is currently used.

3 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors test the hypotheses that student's abductive reasoning ability plays an important role in hypothesis-generating about vapor condensation, and student's hypothesisgenerating requires their causal explicans as well as experience.
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to test the hypotheses that student's abductive reasoning ability plays an important role in hypothesis-generating about vapor condensation, and student's hypothesis-generating requires their causal explicans as well as experience. To test the hypotheses, the instruments of hypothesis-generation, prior knowledge, and experience with vapor condensation were developed and administered to 6th grade students. This study found that 72 subjects among 89 students who had prior knowledge about vapor condensation failed to apply their prior knowledge to hypothesis-generating about the vapor condensation. This result showed that the students' failure in hypothesis-generating was related to their deficiency in abductive reasoning ability. In addition, this study showed that 54 subjects among 56 students who had experience with vapor condensation also failed to generate hypotheses. This result supported that student's causal explanations were separated from their experience. Therefore, this study suggests that science education should include the teaching of abductive reasoning skills for developing student's hypothesis-generating skills.

3 citations

16 May 2016
TL;DR: The paper aims to show the effect of verbal reasoning on the value of ideas and concludes that the way of framing ideas is indicative of how ideas add value to on-going design processes.
Abstract: Reasoning is argumentative and is at the core of design activity and thinking. Understanding the influence of reasoning on the value of ideas is key to support design practice. The paper aims to show the effect of verbal reasoning on the value of ideas. Protocol analyses of four industry cases doing idea generation shows that framing by certainty and deductive reasoning lead to useful incremental ideas while framing by uncertainty and abductive reasoning lead to radical ideas. The paper concludes that the way of framing ideas is indicative of how ideas add value to on-going design processes.

3 citations

Book ChapterDOI
01 Jan 2018
TL;DR: The authors investigated the use of logical fallacies, in particular the fallacy of composition, to account for normatively incorrect responses given by prospective teachers to relative probability comparisons of coin flip sequences.
Abstract: The purpose of this article is to contribute to the research investigating the use of logical fallacies, in particular the fallacy of composition, to account for normatively incorrect responses given by prospective teachers to relative probability comparisons. Our results respond to certain assumptions made regarding research on relative probability comparisons of coin flip sequences, which have suggested that participants were actually comparing events rather than sequences, and demonstrates that even when presented with events, the majority of respondents still give normatively incorrect responses. As with all research in this area, abductive reasoning is employed to substantiate our claim that the fallacy of composition is the most probable explanation of respondents reasoning.

3 citations

15 Dec 1995

3 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202356
2022103
202156
202059
201956
201867