Niiniluoto, Ilkka
(2007)
Structural Rules for Abduction.
THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 22 (3).
pp. 325-329.
ISSN 2171-679X
Abstract
Atocha Aliseda’s Abductive Reasoning (2006) gives a structural characterization of the “forward” explana-tory reasoning from a theory to observational data. This paper asks whether there are any interesting struc-tural rules for the “backward” abductive reasoning from observations to explanatory theories. Ignoring sta-tistical cases, a partial explication of abduction is converse deductive explanation: h is abducible from e iff h deductively explains e. This relation of abducibility trivially satisfies Converse Entailment (if h entails e, then h is abducible from e ), but it does not generally satisfy Converse Consequence (if h is abducible from e and g entails h, then g is abducible from e ), since deductive explanation is not always transitive.
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ISSN: 0495-4548 (print) |
| Keywords: |
abduction, deduction, explanation, induction, non-monotonic logic, structural rules |
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11 Mar 2014 21:44 |
| Item ID: |
10419 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science |
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Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea / Universidad del País Vasco |
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http://www.ehu.es/ojs/index.php/THEORIA/article/vi... |
| DOI or Unique Handle: |
10.1387/theoria.453 |
| Date: |
2007 |
| Page Range: |
pp. 325-329 |
| Volume: |
22 |
| Number: |
3 |
| ISSN: |
2171-679X |
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https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/10419 |
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