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This document summarizes a conference paper about abduction as a mode of inference in science education. It discusses abduction as playing a major role in scientific explanations and should be an important part of science teaching. Abduction produces new knowledge by generating hypotheses to explain observations. While deduction and induction are non-ampliative, abduction is ampliative by creating something new in its conclusions. The paper traces discussions of abduction back to Aristotle and examines Peir

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Josep Coromina Morató

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