Eastern thinking, by contrast, has been abductive, moving from pragmatism to guessing the next steps. Abductive inference is pragmatic, looking only at outcomes, guessing at the rule, and identifying the cause.
相比之下，东方的思考方式则是溯因式的，从实用主义出发去猜测下一步该如何行动。溯因推理注重实效，只关注结果，通过结果来猜想原理，再由此确定原因。