Abductive Reasoning: Logical Investigations into Discovery and Explanation is a much awaited original contribution to the study of abductive reasoning, providing logical foundations and a rich sample of pertinent applications. Divided into three parts on the conceptual framework, the logical foundations, and the applications, this monograph takes the reader for a comprehensive and erudite tour through the taxonomy of abductive reasoning, via the logical workings of abductive inference ending with applications pertinent to scientific explanation, empirical progress, pragmatism and belief revision.
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Abductive Reasoning: Logical Investigations into Discovery and Explanation
Abductive Reasoning: Logical Investigations into Discovery and Explanation is a much awaited original contribution to the study of abductive reasoning, providing logical foundations and a rich sample of pertinent applications. Divided into three parts on the conceptual framework, the logical foundations, and the applications, this monograph takes the reader for a comprehensive and erudite tour through the taxonomy of abductive reasoning, via the logical workings of abductive inference ending with applications pertinent to scientific explanation, empirical progress, pragmatism and belief revision.
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Abductive Reasoning: Logical Investigations into Discovery and Explanation
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Abductive Reasoning: Logical Investigations into Discovery and Explanation
239Paperback(Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006)
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ISBN-13: | 9789048169931 |
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Publisher: | Springer Netherlands |
Publication date: | 11/19/2010 |
Series: | Synthese Library , #330 |
Edition description: | Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006 |
Pages: | 239 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d) |
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