<Dl> <Dd> But if A were true, C would be a matter of course, </Dd> <Dd> Hence, there is reason to suspect that A is true . </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> But if A were true, C would be a matter of course, </Dd> <Dd> Hence, there is reason to suspect that A is true . </Dd> <P> The hypothesis is framed, but not asserted, in a premise, then asserted as rationally suspectable in the conclusion . Thus, as in the earlier categorical syllogistic form, the conclusion is formulated from some premise (s). But all the same the hypothesis consists more clearly than ever in a new or outside idea beyond what is known or observed . Induction in a sense goes beyond observations already reported in the premises, but it merely amplifies ideas already known to represent occurrences, or tests an idea supplied by hypothesis; either way it requires previous abductions in order to get such ideas in the first place . Induction seeks facts to test a hypothesis; abduction seeks a hypothesis to account for facts . </P>

Inference to the best explanation (or abduction) is a form of the following kind of reasoning