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Which statement is an example of abductive reasoning?

A.) The park near my apartment hosts a tulip festival every year, so the flowers must be pretty.

B.) A coffee mug I bought from that store broke very easily, so all of the store’s cups must be fragile.

C.) Curly parsley is an herb, and herbs are plants, so curly parsley must be a plant.

D.) The restaurant has over a thousand positive reviews, so it must have good food.

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Answer:

It's C.

Step-by-step explanation:

Edge 2020;)

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Answer:

c) Curly parsley is an herb, and herbs are plants, so curly parsley must be a plant

Step-by-step explanation:

abductive reasoning is a form of logical inference that seeks the simplest and most likely conclusion from a set of observations

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