Abductive Inference¶
Josephson, J. R., & Josephson, S. G. (1994). Abductive Inference: Computation, Philosophy, Technology. Cambridge University Press.
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- Abductive Reasoning
- The structural insight is robust: a clinician working through a differential diagnosis, a detective reconstructing a crime scene, a debugger tracing a stack-trace to a root cause, a scientist proposing a mechanism behind an anomalous reading, and a visual system committing to one 3D interpretation of an ambiguous 2D retinal image are all running the same comparative-explanatory inference, a cross-domain unity Josephson and Josephson (1994) document across diagnostic and inferential systems in their treatment of abduction as a computational pattern.
This sourceTreats abduction as a computational pattern unifying medical diagnosis, scientific theory formation, accident investigation, language understanding, and perception, and surveys generic abduction machines built on that schema.
- The structural insight is robust: a clinician working through a differential diagnosis, a detective reconstructing a crime scene, a debugger tracing a stack-trace to a root cause, a scientist proposing a mechanism behind an anomalous reading, and a visual system committing to one 3D interpretation of an ambiguous 2D retinal image are all running the same comparative-explanatory inference, a cross-domain unity Josephson and Josephson (1994) document across diagnostic and inferential systems in their treatment of abduction as a computational pattern.
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