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This chapter proposes a non-representational basis for abduction which facilitates a pragmatic connection between experienced possibilities and actualized concepts. It foregrounds the significance of experience in the surprise of abduction and drawing on Peirce, proposes a broadening of the scope of abduction in the form of a continuum. The significant features of the continuum are detailed, and the benefits this larger synechistic view of abduction may provide beyond the received representational view.