Charles Sanders Peirce introduced the concept of abduction, a form of reasoning that begins with uncertainty and leads to informed guesses or hypotheses. He proposed that belief formation is not about having perfect knowledge but about starting from doubt and making educated guesses worth testing. This inquiry process is critical in fields like UX design and AI prompting. Peirce outlined three ways of reasoning: abduction, deduction, and induction, stressing that abduction is where innovative ideas originate, making it an essential element of problem-solving and design thinking.
Charles Peirce named abduction as the logic of the best guess, a method of reasoning that begins with uncertainty and leads to hypotheses worth testing.
Peirce emphasized that truth is not given but pursued, and that doubt is essential to genuine thought and belief formation.
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