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| The Cheshire cat, famous invisible cat |
In an
earlier post in this blog, I explained with an example the mode of
reasoning based on abduction. Although
not as strong as deduction and induction, abduction reaches high degrees of
confidence in fields such as history, art criticism and others, less scientific
than mathematics or natural science.
In another
post published in March 2016, I described the
fallacy of the invisible cat, which confuses a sufficient condition
with a necessary condition for something to happen. This situation occurs when
there are several possible causes that may have given rise to the same
phenomenon.
In some cases, if we apply abduction to a situation where the fallacy
of the invisible cat could occur, a conclusion can be reached. Think of the example
I proposed to describe this fallacy:
