Abduction, Reason, and Science¶
Magnani, L. (2001). Abduction, Reason, and Science: Processes of Discovery and Explanation. Kluwer Academic.
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- Abductive Reasoning
- These three operations — best-explainer selection, defeasible holding, and backward-from-observation inference — are substrate-independent because the explanatory-virtue framework itself is, a point Magnani (2001) develops in his treatment of abduction across logical, cognitive, and computational substrates.
This sourceTreats abduction as a single structural inference pattern instantiated across logical, cognitive, perceptual, and computational substrates; develops the role of explanatory virtues, visual/temporal representations, and the withdrawal of hypotheses.
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The book's abstract supports that Magnani integrates philosophical, cognitive, and computational issues in abduction, but does not state the substrate-independence thesis or explanatory-virtue framework.
“My aim is to inte grate philosophical, cognitive, and computational issues, while also discuss ing some cases of reasoning in science and medicine.”
- These three operations — best-explainer selection, defeasible holding, and backward-from-observation inference — are substrate-independent because the explanatory-virtue framework itself is, a point Magnani (2001) develops in his treatment of abduction across logical, cognitive, and computational substrates.
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