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A mallard, shown looking like a duck and swimming like a duck.
The duck test is a form of abductive reasoning. This is its usual expression:
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
The test implies that a person can identify an unknown subject by observing that subject's habitual characteristics. It is sometimes used to counter abstruse arguments that something is not what it appears to be.
The ducktest is a form of abductive reasoning. This is its usual expression: If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then...
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to methods, such as duck typing. Many domains, with a numerical focus, use limit theory, of various sorts, to overcome the ducktest necessity with varying...
The Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever is a medium-sized gundog bred primarily for hunting. It is often referred to as a "toller". It is the smallest of...
self-interest of actors who play roles in a business or other institution. Ducktest The proof of the pudding is in the eating (Wiktionary) Beer, Stafford...
reasoning – Inference seeking the simplest and most likely explanation Ducktest – Classification based on observable evidence Explanatory power – Ability...
Daffy Duck is a fictional character created by animators Tex Avery and Bob Clampett for Leon Schlesinger Productions. Styled as an anthropomorphic black...
Duck (sometimes named Dumbella Duck) is a cartoon character created in 1937 by Al Taliaferro and Ted Osborne. She is a core member of the Disney Duck...
see Duck family (Disney) or Clan McDuck. For characters exclusive to the DuckTales franchise, see List of DuckTales characters. Donald Duck Daisy Duck Huey...
Donald Duck is a cartoon character created by The Walt Disney Company. Donald is an anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet...
Fuzzy duck is a drinking game where players sit in a circle and take turns to say the words "fuzzy duck". A player may also opt to say, "does he?", in...
artificial intelligence aiming to create AI systems with "common sense" Ducktest – Classification based on observable evidence Family resemblance – Philosophical...
Erasmus' country of origin. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet Ducktest Calling a deer a horse Rectification of names Political correctness Martin...
Western philosophy Anekantavada Black cat analogy Dispersed knowledge Ducktest Elephant in the room Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, an 1884 satirical...
The Australian wood duck, maned duck or maned goose (Chenonetta jubata) is a dabbling duck found throughout much of Australia. It is the only living species...
The mallard (/ˈmælɑːrd, ˈmælərd/) or wild duck (Anas platyrhynchos) is a dabbling duck that breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Eurasia...
Case-based reasoning Casuistry Commonsense reasoning Conceptual blending Ducktest False analogy Hypocatastasis I know it when I see it Intuitive statistics...
deductively valid Douglas N. Walton – Canadian academic and author (1942–2020) Ducktest – Classification based on observable evidence Falsifiability – Property...
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