The reach of abduction : insight and trial /

The present work is a continuation of the authors' acclaimed multi-volume A Practical Logic of Cognitive Systems. After having investigated the notion of relevance in their previous volume, Gabbay and Woods now turn to abduction. In this highly original approach, abduction is construed as ignor...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gabbay, Dov M., 1945-
Other Authors: Woods, John (John Hayden)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; San Diego, Calif. : Elsevier, 2005.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Practical logic of cognitive systems ; v. 2.
Subjects:
Abduction (Logic)
Logic.
Abduction (Logique)
PHILOSOPHY > Logic.
Logic
Abductie (logica)
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements.
  • Preface.
  • A Practical Logic of Cognitive Systems
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Practical Logic
  • Conceptual Models of Abduction
  • 3. The Structure of Abduction
  • 4. Explanationist Abduction
  • 5. Non-Plausibilistic Abduction
  • 6. Diagnostic Abduction in AI
  • 7. The Characteristic and the Plausible
  • 8. Relevance and Analogy
  • 9. Interpretation Abduction
  • Formal Models of Abduction
  • 10. A Glimpse of Formality
  • 11. A General Theory of Logical Systems
  • 12. A Base Logic
  • 13. An Abductive Mechanism for the Base Logic
  • Bibliography.
  • Index.

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