We can witness the recent surge of interest in classifying different patterns or types of abduction. Many philosophers, including Thagard, Magnani, Gabbay and Woods, Schurz, and Hoffmann, have suggested their own classifications emphasizing different aspects of abduction (Thagard 1988; Magnani 2001, 2009; Gabbay and Woods 2005; Schurz 2008; Hoffmann 2011). Such a development is remarkable, in v...