**Links to**: [[Induction]], [[Deduction]], [[Rule]], [[Rule induction]], [[Rule-following paradox]], [[Grue-Bleen]], [[Foundations of Philosophy]], [[C. S. Peirce]], [[Bas van Fraasen]], [[Igor Douven]] An [[Inference]] to the best explanation, conventionally speaking: pulling oneself by the reasoning bootstraps. More specifically: a **plausible** explanation, where plausibility indicates the elimination of _many_ possibilities, towards what seem to be the most probable. Importantly: we inherit the structures of reasoning we are born into, and this means that we have to abduct with what we’ve got. %% [[G. E. Moore]] (Here are my hands argument, I may not be able to convince the skeptic, but if it's consistent from my standpoint, what do I care?), [[Bertrand Russell]] (in the context of the [[Real World Hypothesis]])