[FRIAM] The fruits of abduction

[lrudolph at meganet.net]

> The problem is that Born’s rule was not really more than a smart guess
> —
>> there was no fundamental reason that led Born to propose it. “It was
>> an
>> intuition without a precise justification,” said Adán Cabello
>> <https://personal.us.es/adan/home.htm>, a quantum theorist at the
>> University of Seville in Spain.

Isn't that what an "Ansatz" is?  (A quick Googling suggests maybe not. 
But it seems similar to me...)