Abduction¶
Douven, I. (2021). Abduction. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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- Abductive Reasoning
- The defeasibility hold is what keeps abduction self-correcting, a structural feature Douven's (2021) overview of inference to the best explanation treats as inseparable from its function.
This sourceReviews abduction / inference to the best explanation: contrasts it with deduction and enumerative induction, treats defeasibility as inseparable from its self-correcting function, and surveys the open debate over whether explanatory virtues can be reconstructed within Bayesian conditionalization.
- The defeasibility hold is what keeps abduction self-correcting, a structural feature Douven's (2021) overview of inference to the best explanation treats as inseparable from its function.
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