CRITICAL THINKING – Fundamentals: Abductive Arguments

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In this Wireless Philosophy video, Geoff Pynn (Northern Illinois University) follows up on his introduction to critical thinking by exploring how abductive arguments give us reason to believe their conclusions. Good abductive arguments don’t guarantee their conclusions, but give us very good reasons to believe their conclusions. This sort of inference is called “inference to the best explanation.”

[Video and text source: Wireless Philosophy YouTube channel]