retroduction

Noun

Meaning

A leading or bringing back.

Source: Webster's dictionary

abduction

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Over the years he called such inference hypothesis, abduction, presumption, and retroduction. Source: Internet

Peirce also called abduction "retroduction", "presumption", and, earliest of all, "hypothesis". Source: Internet

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