Abduction is the process of forming an explanatory hypothesis, or what we are calling a narraphor. In Peirce’s own definition, “It is the only logical operation which introduces any new idea, for induction does nothing but determine a value, and deduction merely evolves the necessary consequences of pure hypothesis.”50 Abduction (“creative,” “inspirational,” “imaginative,” “feeling,” “intuitive”) doesn’t exclude either induction or deduction (“scientific,” “logical”). In fact, according to Peirce, “hypothesis produces the sensuous element of thought, and induction the habitual element.
