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Abduction of Generalizations [PDF]
THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 2012 Abduction of generalizations is the process in which explanatory hypotheses are formed for an observed, yet puzzling generalization such as ``pineapples taste sweet" or ``rainbows appear when the sun breaks through the rain". This phenomenon has received little attention in formal logic and philosophy of science.
Gauderis, Tjerk, Van De Putte, Frederik
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CoRR, 2013 Abductive reasoning (or Abduction, for short) is among the most fundamental AI reasoning methods, with a broad range of applications, including fault diagnosis, belief revision, and automated planning. Unfortunately, Abduction is of high computational complexity; even propositional Abduction is Σ_2^P-complete and thus harder than NP and coNP.
Andreas Pfandler +2 more
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, 2022 A novel defense of abduction, one of the main forms of nondeductive reasoning. With this book, Igor Douven offers the first comprehensive defense of abduction, a form of nondeductive reasoning.
Douven, Igor
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CoRR, 2000 Abduction is one of the most important forms of reasoning; it has been successfully applied to several practical problems such as diagnosis. In this paper we investigate whether the computational complexity of abduction can be reduced by an appropriate use of preprocessing. This is motivated by the fact that part of the data of the problem (namely, the
LIBERATORE, Paolo, SCHAERF, Marco
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Practical Abduction for Research on Human Practices : Enriching Rather Than Testing a Hypothesis [PDF]
, 2021 Following C. S. Peirce, abduction is often interpreted as a first phase of inquiry where a hypothesis is formulated requiring testing. I maintain, however, that a natural scientific ideal of testing is not the most suitable model for studies on human ...
Paavola, Sami, Sami Paavola
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Information Pluralism and Some Informative Modes of Ignorance
Information, 2011 In this paper information concepts will be roughly divided into two categories: The cybernetic and the semiotic-pragmatic. They are further divided into three and four subcategories, respectively. The cybernetic conception of information, which comprises
Erkki Patokorpi
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Attempted and completed incidents of stranger-perpetrated child sexual abuse and abduction [PDF]
, 2008 Objective To establish the prevalence, typology and nature of attempted or completed incidents of stranger-perpetrated sexual abuse or abduction of children “away from home”. Methods A questionnaire was completed by 2,420 children (83% response rate)
Ken Pease +5 more
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Analysis of Abduction in Mathematics Problem Posing and Solving
Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics, 2020 The purpose of this study was to analyze the abduction in mathematical problem-posing and problem-solving activities. Abduction is more concerned with creating new things than deduction and inductive reasoning. According to the student"s rules, abduction
Myoung Hwa Lee, Sun Hee Kim
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Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2022 John Turri has recently called for a major shift in how the vast majority of philosophers think of knowledge. Instead of maintaining that knowledge must proceed from reliable processes, he urges epistemologists to move toward an “abilist” view that ...
Kevin Meeker
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, 2023 Dr Nicola Taylor, Professor of Family Law and Director of Children’s Issues Centre , University of Otago New Zealand and Professor Marilyn Freeman, co-director International Centre for Family Law, Policy and Practice, University of Westminster, London ...
Freeman, M., Taylor, N.
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