Looks like an interesting book. I’ve heard abduction described as “analogical reasoning” or “metaphorical reasoning” which is definitely not as rigid as deducti

Looks like an interesting book. I’ve heard abduction described as “analogical reasoning” or “metaphorical reasoning” which is definitely not as rigid as deduction or induction but arguably more important—without analogies I’d doubt we’d ever learn anything. If you’re interested in the topic check out the works of Charles Sanders Pierce (he coined the term abduction). He was a logician and semiotician and is still criminally underrated. Other than Wittgenstein, he’s pretty much the only logician I’m aware of who extensively wrote compellingly about topics outside of logic and was able to make logic itself feel relevant and meaningful in everyday life. Most logicians/analytical philosophers are either entirely silent on other topics or fall completely flat when they attempt to venture beyond logical subjects. (there are others too, Russell sort of comes to mind, as well as a few others, but Wittgenstein and Pierce are in a class of their own. They are the two writers who I feel not only helped me understand some concept in a field but actually profoundly altered how I think about thinking—I guess I’d include Heinz von Foerster in this category too)