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Both abduction and induction aim at inferring hypotheses given some observations. In the inferential perspective of Peirce, recalled by Flach and Kakas in the introductory chapter, abduction is defined as the process of coming up with a hypothesis to explain the observations. I will consider a slightly more constrained definition of abduction as the inference of the best explanation. Reasoning from symptoms to their causes (diseases) is, for instance, a typical abductive task. This definition is the most frequently used in computer science.
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Lachiche, N. (2000). Abduction and Induction from a Non-Monotonic Reasoning Perspective. In: Flach, P.A., Kakas, A.C. (eds) Abduction and Induction. Applied Logic Series, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0606-3_7
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