Editing Abductive reasoning (section)

=== Medicine ===
In [[medicine]], abduction can be seen as a component of clinical evaluation and judgment.<ref name="Rapezzi2005">{{cite journal|last=Rapezzi|first=C|author2=Ferrari, R|author3= Branzi, A|title=White coats and fingerprints: diagnostic reasoning in medicine and investigative methods of fictional detectives|journal=BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.)|date=24 December 2005| volume=331| issue=7531| pages=1491–4| pmid=16373725|pmc=1322237| doi=10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1491}}</ref><ref name="Rejon2012">{{cite journal|last=Rejón Altable|first=C|title=Logic structure of clinical judgment and its relation to medical and psychiatric semiology| journal=Psychopathology|date=October 2012| volume=45| issue=6| pages=344–51| pmid=22854297| url=http://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/337968| access-date=17 January 2014| doi=10.1159/000337968| doi-access=free}}</ref> The [[Internist-I]] diagnostic system, the first [[AI]] system that covered the field of Internal Medicine, used abductive reasoning to converge on the most likely causes of a set of patient symptoms that it acquired through an interactive dialog with an expert user.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pople |first1=Harry E. |editor1-last=Szolovits |editor1-first=Peter |title=Artificial Intelligence In Medicine |date=1982 |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429052071-5/heuristic-methods-imposing-structure-iii-structured-problems-structuring-medical-diagnostics-harry-pople |chapter=Heuristic Methods for Imposing Structure on Ill-Structured Problems: The Structuring of Medical Diagnostics|pages=119–190 |doi=10.4324/9780429052071-5 |isbn=978-0-429-05207-1 }}</ref>