Sentence examples for retroduction from inspiring English sources

Although he made eminent contributions to deductive, or mathematical, logic, Peirce was a student primarily of "the logic of science"—i.e., of induction and of what he referred to as "retroduction," or "abduction," the forming and accepting on probation of a hypothesis to explain surprising facts.

This new type of argument Peirce called hypothesis (also, retroduction, and also, abduction).