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Abductive writing styles

After enjoying this excellent essay on teaching composition by thoughtful collaborative editing, I’m afraid I’m left with one niggling earworm of a question: If there’s a clearly-defined inductive mode, and a deductive mode… what would the abductive mode be?

I wonder.

Cosma said,

September 8, 2005 @ 11:13 am

Plagiarism.

Bill said,

September 8, 2005 @ 12:17 pm

He speaks!

So you’re saying Peirce was a punster, eh?

Cosma said,

September 8, 2005 @ 2:09 pm

Actually, I just think he had a tin ear.

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