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Exposing the Magic of Design$
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Jon Kolko

Print publication date: 2010

Print ISBN-13: 9780199744336

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2011

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199744336.001.0001

Abductive Reasoning

Chapter:
(p. 23 ) Chapter 3 Abductive Reasoning
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Exposing the Magic of Design
Author(s):

Jon Kolko

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199744336.003.0004

This chapter explains how abductive reasoning works, comparing and contrasting this form of logic with both deductive and inductive logic. It is then described in the context of creative problem solving, illustrating how designers can work from incomplete data to produce new ideas.

Keywords:   abductive logic, deductive logic, inductive logic

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