>> It's an inference to the best explanation: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/abduction/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/abduction/ No empirical evidence

>> It's an inference to the best explanation: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/abduction/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/abduction/ No empirical evidence conclusively proves its true explanation, but the best available explanation is the most likely correct one. I don’t think that link implies what you think it does. It discusses abduction as a way to justify a hypothesis, you still need to test it. I’m not arguing your hypothesis is wrong, I’m just arguing I think you’re wrong in treating it as a fact (“the reality is yes …”). You could have said “the reality is cassettes could have … “ and that would be true.