Q&A: Mistake?
Originally published:
This is an English translation (via GPT-5.4). Read the original Hebrew version.
Mistake?
Question
In the fourth notebook, in the paragraph beginning “Two Types of Explanation,” it seems that a mistake slipped into the analogy between deduction and abduction and identifying something as familiar and unfamiliar (apparently it should be the other way around).
Am I mistaken?
Answer
Abduction is identifying the unfamiliar.
Discussion on Answer
Indeed. Fixed.
By the way, this mistake carried over into the book too (we didn’t notice the reversal). It was already corrected after the advance copies (in the middle of the printing process). The last correction! 🙂
More power to you.
So there was a mistake in the notebook. It says exactly the opposite there.