Intellectual Reference Point Restoration
Topic: “Abductive Reasoning”
🔎 Lexicon containing “Abductive Reasoning”
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Abductive Reasoning
A method of reasoning in which one chooses the hypothesis that would, if true, best explain the relevant evidence.
💬 Quote Library — containing “Abductive Reasoning”
A Structure Which Has No Relation to Reality
Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments and they wander off through equation after equation and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
📖 Excerpts Library
It Is Probably a Sphere
Before any celestial distances or sizes could be calculated, the ancient Greeks first had to establish that the Earth is a sphere. This view gained acceptance in ancient Greece as philosophers became familiar with the notion that ships gradually disappear...
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
🎼 Song Excerpts
That’s the Way It Goes, I Guess
That's the way it goes - I guess
Take a Look out of the Window
Now the verses I've sang, don't add much weight to the story in my head - So I'm thinking I should go and write a punchline - But they're so hard to find in my cosmic mind, so I think I'll take a look out of the window
🧵 Narrative Threads containing “Abductive Reasoning”
Feelings Are Intense, Words Are Trivial
To start by making the trade center disappear, though, seems a good way to begin.
I Was Just Guessing at Numbers and Figures
Nobody said it was easy. No one ever said it would be so hard. I’m going back to the start.
It Was Always Burning Since the World’s Been Turning
And I’m trying to believe in things that I don’t know. The turning of the world, the color of your soul.