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 Translation for 'abductive' from English to French
abductif {adj}abductive
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Translation for 'abductive' from English to French

abductive
abductif {adj}
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Usage Examples English
  • Van de Ven was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Academy of Management Discoveries, a journal for exploratory, abductive, research in management and organizations.
  • He proposes theories are stories constructed by abductive reasoning to explain phenomena.
  • Abductive reasoning, unlike deductive reasoning, yields a plausible conclusion but does not definitively verify it.
  • Some authors refer to a mind map or abductive reasoning as a potential alternative strategy for organizing care. Intuition plays a part for experienced nurses.
  • Ten essays on methods of abductive inference in Poe's Dupin, Doyle's Holmes, Peirce and many others, 236 pages.

  • Abductive reasoning is a form of inference which goes from an observation to a theory which accounts for the observation, ideally seeking to find the simplest and most likely explanation.
  • Divination practice evolved through time from abductive positions to reckonings by virtue of an "a priori", and a tendency to make generalizations about causes.
  • For a good example of abductive reasoning, look at logical reasoning.
  • So inductive inference is a special case of abductive inference. In common usage the term inductive inference is often used to refer to both abductive and inductive inference.
  • Martin argues that business is currently missing abductive reasoning, the third form of logic (deductive logic and inductive logic being other two).

  • Abductive reasoning is the process of deriving a sufficient explanation of the known facts.
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