Abduction and Evidence-Based Diagnosis

Abduction is the illegal removal of a child or other dependent person from the family or legally designated provider of care, or a method of reasoning that arrives at the most logical inference after considering all the available evidence, then decides which solution is the best fit.

Evidence-based diagnosis is a method of reasoning that arrives at the most logical inference after considering all the available evidence, then decides which solution is the best fit. It is used in artificial intelligence.

The purpose of abduction is to illegally remove a child or other dependent person from the family or legally designated provider of care.