Published on June 16, 2026 9:18 PM GMT I’m talking about Charles Sanders Peirce’s article Deduction, Induction and Hypothesis . He describes a kind of thinking he calls “abduction”, which is the drawing of plausible conclusions that could not be arrived at based solely on what is observed. It’s an operation that makes human thinking different to AI’s To try to explain it briefly before moving onto more interesting points—think of all the information you receive through sensory organs. This is al