Abduction Quote by T E Kinsey

“Even science is inductive, relying on observations and best explanations, not always deductive conclusions.”

— Nabeel Qureshi

“The most important rule when assessing abductive arguments is to consider alternative explanations. When we are presented with an explanation that sounds plausible, too…

— Michael E Emmering

“Leaping to conclusions is what we always do in inductive reasoning, but we generally only call it that when the process fails us --…

— Kathryn Schulz

“Deductive reasoning, the bedrock of the scientific method, begins with a new theory which leads to a prediction (a hypothesis). The real world is…

— Rich Jolly

“Everything you do, everything you sense and say is experiment. No deduction final. Nothing stops until dead and perhaps not even then, because each…

— Frank Herbert

“All mathematical proofs must be deductive. Each proof is a chain of deductive arguments, each of which has its premises and conclusion.”

— Morris Kline

It is difficult to distinguish deduction from what in other circumstances is called problem-solving. And concept learning, inference, and reasoning by analogy are all…

— Frank Smith

Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.

— Paul Halmos

“All right,” she said. “Inductive reasoning. It’s what those so-called detectives on CSI, SVU, LMNOP and all the rest of them call deductive reasoning,…

— Joe Ide

“All right,” she said. “Inductive reasoning. It’s what those so-called detectives on CSI, SVU, LMNOP and all the rest of them call deductive reasoning,…

— Joe Ide

“The successful development of science requires a proper balance to be maintained between the method of building up from observations and the method of…

— Paul A.M. Dirac

This method of deduction ... is often called "combinatory". Its usefulness is not exhausted at this stage, but it does even at the outset…

— John Chadwick