Ah, That is actually an illuminating perspective cutting through verbiage. Abduction is the first "step", that the produces the ideas that can be considered .

Ah, That is actually an illuminating perspective cutting through verbiage. Abduction is the first "step", that the produces the ideas that can be considered ... by induction or deduction. It is the principle that we have to start somewhere. Basically, an abductive step is something like "I can think of only ten hypotheses that explain X and only one of them works. I could consider an infinity of possibilities but it's not worth it. I will stick with my working hypothesis".