On the Relation between Abduction and Inductive Learning -- I: Logical Approaches -- AI Approaches to Abduction -- Abduction in Labelled Deductive Systems -- Logical Characterisations of Inductive Learning -- Abduction in Machine Learning -- II: Numerical Approaches -- An Overview of Ordinal and Numerical Approaches to Causal Diagnostic Problem Solving -- Abductive Inference with Probabilistic Networks -- Learning from Data: Possibilistic Graphical Models -- Independence in Uncertainty Theories and its Applications to Learning Belief Networks.