This is the [http://www.butte.edu/departments/cas/tipsheets/thinking/reasoning.html abductive] stage of forming a hypothesis. There is no single logical procedure to implement here. We identify points of interest and guess at what might be the case for the observations that we are making. Try* Open-ended search searches by the team members* Selections of interest to the team members* Identifying emotional reactions* Discussion amongst team membersto identify conditions that might be sufficient and economical in explaining an observation or a set of similar observations 

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