abduction

abduction

abduction (plural abductions)

1. The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away.
2. (physiology) The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.
3. (law) The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being.

   the abduction of a child

4. (logic) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major is evident, but the minor is only probable.
   • 2005, Ronnie Cann, Ruth Kempson, Lutz Marten, The Dynamics of Language, an Introduction, page 256:

     The significance of such a step is that it is not morphologically triggered: it is a step of abduction, and what is required here is a meta-level process of reasoning.

	rapimento
	act of abducing or abducting
	law: carrying off of a human being
	Atto di chi sottrae e trattiene una persona con la forza spec. a scopi terroristici o di estorsione.
	The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being.

	abduzione
	physiology: movement separating limb from axis
	logic: syllogism

abduction

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Altri significati:

computing: process of inference

(education) The process used in getting students to see disciplinary regularity through the use of metaphor.

(physiology) The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.

(computing) The process of inference to the best explanation; abductive reasoning.

The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away.

(law) The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being.

(logic) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major is evident, but the minor is only probable.

Determining the best or most plausible of many possible explanations for a set of facts

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