A concept analysis of abductive reasoning.
Aim To describe an analysis of the concept of abductive reasoning. Background In the discipline of nursing, abductive reasoning has received only philosophical attention and remains a vague concept. In addition to deductive and inductive reasoning, abductive reasoning is not recognized even in promi...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Advanced Nursing (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) Vol. 70; no. 9; pp. 1980 - 1995 |
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Sep2014
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