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Abductive reasoning, an Uncommon card
Abductive reasoning is a form of logical inference that seeks the simplest and most likely conclusion from a set of observations.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 82
- DEF
- 59
- Power
- 141
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 110,000
Power 141 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Abductive reasoning quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Abductive reasoning card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Abductive reasoning, unlike deductive reasoning, yields a ______ conclusion but does not definitively verify it.
Answer
plausible. Abductive reasoning, unlike deductive reasoning, yields a plausible conclusion but does not definitively verify it. From the Abductive reasoning article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Abductive reasoning. Abductive reasoning 82 · Charlottetown 79 · Cayenne 74 · Peasant 71 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It was formulated and advanced by the American philosopher and logician Charles Sanders Peirce beginning in the latter half of the 19th century.
- Abductive reasoning, unlike deductive reasoning, yields a plausible conclusion but does not definitively verify it.
- Abductive conclusions do not eliminate uncertainty or doubt, which is expressed in terms such as "best available" or "most likely".
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Abductive reasoning article was read about 110,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 82 and blocks with 59: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Abductive reasoning (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Photo taken by User:ZeroOne, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
