duck test
An alleged duck.
Meaning
Noun
- A form of abductive reasoning, application of intuition (or common sense) regardless of technical parameters, to identify an ostensibly unknown subject by observing that subject's characteristics.
Origin
- From the expression if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
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