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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Walton, Douglas N.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, 2004.
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.