**Links to**: [[Induction]], [[Deduction]], [[Reason]], [[Rule]], [[Rule induction]], [[Rule-following paradox]], [[Grue-Bleen]], [[Foundations of Philosophy]], [[C. S. Peirce]], [[Bas van Fraasen]], [[Igor Douven]], [[Truth]], [[Concept]], [[Inference]], [[Thought]], [[Legitimacy]], [[Authority]], [[Dialogical]], [[Dialove]], [[Dialogue]], [[Private-public]], [[Social]], [[Rationality]], [[Sense]], [[Deduction]], [[Induction]], [[Abduction]], [[Semantic attractor]], [[Pattern]], [[Philosophy]], [[Intuition]], [[Cognition]], [[Logic]], [[Invention]], etc. 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. **See also**: [[Deduction]], [[Induction]], [[Solomonoff induction]]. %% [[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]])