Abductive Reasoning /
"This book examines three areas in which abductive reasoning is especially important: medicine, science, and law. Douglas Walton introduces the foundations of abduction and shows how it has evolved historically into the framework of conventional wisdom in logic." "Discussions draw upo...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa, Ala. :
University of Alabama Press,
2004.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Abductive, presumptive, and plausible arguments
- A dialogue model of explanation
- A procedural model of rationality
- Defeasible modus ponens arguments
- Abductive causal reasoning
- Query-driven abductive reasoning
- Unsolved problems of abduction.