In this paper we start presenting the concept of abductive reasoning, one of the three principal forms of logical inference described by C.S. Peirce in his pragmatic philosophy. Within the relation of abduction, creativity and meaning construction, abduction can be understood as the kind of reasoning that culminates in a temporary assimilation of an explanative hypothesis, which holds conjectural procedures; i.e., abduction is the logical operation that can introduce new ideas. With other logical inferences, deduction and induction, there is no creative process, for anything one can know is already present in the premises, as a matter of necessity or probability respectively. in other words, abduction is the only inferential form that makes knowledge acquisition possible.
