Question

Manga are Japanese comic books and graphic novels that read from back to front, right to left. Jessica has only read manga graphic novels. Someone loans her an American graphic novel, and she begins to read it from back to front, right to left. She was using ________ reasoning Is this a abductive, deductive, or inductive?

Answer 1

Jessica is using abductive reasoning.

Step-by-step explanation:

Abductive reasoning is a type of logical inference that starts with an observation or set of observations and then seeks to find the simplest and most likely explanation for those observations. In this case, Jessica has observed that the American graphic novel is read from back to front and right to left, which is different from the manga graphic novels she is used to reading. She is using her prior experience with manga graphic novels to make an inference about how to read this new type of graphic novel. This process of using prior knowledge to generate a hypothesis about a new situation and then testing that hypothesis is characteristic of abductive reasoning.