What is a good example of abductive reasoning?

Abductive reasoning comes in various guises. It can be seen as a way of generating explanations of a phenomena meeting certain conditions. One handy way of thinking of it is as "inference to the best explanation". read more

Abductive reasoning is the reverse of deductive reasoning. Abductive reasoning shares it's inference based style with inductive reasoning. In deductive reasoning, the conclusion is a direct result of the facts presented. Example: Some people cannot see (fact). The condition when you cannot see is known as blindness (fact). read more

This is an example of abductive reasoning. Abductive reasoning is to abduce (or take away) a logical assumption, explanation, inference, conclusion, hypothesis, or best guess from an observation or set of observations. read more