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Abductive Reasoning
Proposing a plausible way to produce the result you want, so it can be tested.
What is Abductive Reasoning?
Proposing a plausible way to produce the result you want, so it can be tested.
What you learn
Propose another way to get the result, and check it would work.
When it helps
today’s solution is reaching its limits, and you need a different way to get the result.
Use it at work
- Write the result you want, without naming a solution.
- Write how today’s solution produces it.
- Propose other ways the same result could happen.
- Check each would really produce it, then test the best.
Your output
For a result your team wants, write how today’s solution produces it. Then propose two other ways it could happen, and how you’d test each.
Watch for
Polishing today’s solution, or proposing ideas that wouldn’t produce the result.
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