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====4.3.3. Hybrid Types of Inference====
 
====4.3.3. Hybrid Types of Inference====
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In the normal course of inquiry, the fundamental types of inference proceed in the order:  abduction, deduction, induction.  However, the same building blocks can be assembled in other ways to yield different kinds of complex inferences.  Of particular importance for our purposes, reasoning by analogy can be analyzed as a combination of induction and deduction, in other words, as the abstraction and application of a rule.  Because a complicated pattern of analogical inference will be used in our example of a complete inquiry, it will help to prepare the ground if we first stop to consider an example of analogy in its simplest form.
    
=====4.3.3.1. Analogy=====
 
=====4.3.3.1. Analogy=====
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