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Mingers, J. Abduction: the missing link between deduction and induction. A comment on Ormerod's ‘rational inference: deductive, inductive and probabilistic thinking’. J Oper Res Soc 63, 860–861 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.2011.85
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