Abductive Logic·Guided Practice·Lesson 4 of 5

Critiquing Best-Explanation Arguments

Students diagnose flawed abductive arguments and revise them to make the reasoning more rigorous, with particular attention to missing rivals, overstated conclusions, and 'best of a bad lot' mistakes.

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