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abductive reasoning differ in which end, left or right, of the proposition " entails " serves as the conclusion. For example, with deductive reasoning, knowing that it rained heavily during the night you could deduce that the lawn will be wet in the morning, without looking outside. With abductive reasoning, a couple leaving their house in the morning and seeing that their lawn is wet might abduce that it rained while they were asleep. This serves as a hypothesis that "best explains" their observation. Given

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