# Douven n.d.: Abduction

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# Abduction

Igor Douven, n.d.. _Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy_.

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's entry on abduction, or inference to the best explanation: what it is, how it differs from deduction and induction, and the objections to it.

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Douven, I. (n.d.). Abduction. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/abduction/
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