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    Abductive reasoning (also called abduction, abductive inference, or retroduction) is a form of logical inference that seeks the simplest and most likely...
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    includes forms of non-deductive reasoning, such as inductive, abductive, and analogical reasoning. The forms of logical reasoning have in common that they use...
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    sub-classifications in deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning and abductive reasoning. ‘Deductive reasoning is a basic form of valid reasoning, commencing with a...
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  • framework that can be used to solve problems declaratively, based on abductive reasoning. It extends normal logic programming by allowing some predicates...
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  • conclusion. Deductive reasoning contrasts with non-deductive or ampliative reasoning. For ampliative arguments, such as inductive or abductive arguments, the...
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    as deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning, and abductive reasoning. Aristotle drew a distinction between logical discursive reasoning (reason proper)...
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  • various reasoning tasks such as reasoning by default (conclusions may be derived only because of lack of evidence of the contrary), abductive reasoning (conclusions...
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    The duck test is frequently cited colloquial example of abductive reasoning. Its usual expression is: If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and...
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    explanation. In abductive reasoning, unlike in deductive reasoning, the premises do not guarantee the conclusion. One can understand abductive reasoning as "inference...
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  • analogies. This has been interpreted as a form of Peirce's abductive reasoning, called innovative abduction. In the process of designing, the designer's attention...
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  • abduction, or abductive reasoning, which was first formulated and advanced by Charles Sanders Peirce, in 1886, where he referred to it as "reasoning by...
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  • from the median plane of the body Abductive reasoning, a method of reasoning in logic Abducted (disambiguation) Abductor (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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  • • Case-based reasoning Abductive reasoning Inference engine Commonsense reasoning International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR) Conference...
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  • used to speculate about causality. In abductive reasoning, the premises do not guarantee a conclusion. Abduction moves from data description to a hypothesis...
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    statistical considerations. This way, they can be distinguished from abductive inference. Abductive inference may or may not take statistical observations into...
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  • meaning Will to believe doctrine Strong inference Abductive reasoning Deductive reasoning Inductive reasoning Analogy Popper, Karl (1959). The Logic of Scientific...
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    study of abductive reasoning is found in Aristotle's Prior Analytics, Book 2, Chapt. 25. It begins this way: We have Reduction (απαγωγη, abduction): When...
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  • and increase risk of injuries. For a good example of abductive reasoning, look at logical reasoning. Knowledge level Knowledge engineering Lieto, A.; Lebiere...
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  • formulates an abductive conclusion: she and Mulder are trapped underground, experiencing a hallucination, and slowly being digested. Abductive logic has three...
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    as a singular action... allows for combining abductive reasoning with deductive and inductive reasoning". An apparently unreasoned guess that turns out...
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  • reasoning, statistical reasoning, abductive reasoning, and paraconsistent reasoning. The differences between these kinds of reasoning correspond to differences...
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  • extraordinary evidence. Philosophy portal Psychology portal Science portal Abductive reasoning – Inference seeking the simplest and most likely explanation Duck...
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    cognitive psychology and visualization, probability and statistics, etc. Abductive reasoning is an earlier concept with similarities to ACH. Heuer outlines the...
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     2066–2069, Logical Reasoning and Learning Dowden 2020, pp. 432–449, 470 Douven 2022 Koslowski 2017, pp. 366–368, Abductive Reasoning and Explanation Nunes...
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  • Freedom of speech portal Abductive reasoning – Inference seeking the simplest and most likely explanation Case-based reasoning – Process of solving new...
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    conceptual innovation and change in science also in the perspective of abductive reasoning. A major objective of his research is to create a working synthesis...
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    goal-based reasoning, argument from negative consequences, argument from positive consequences, inference to the best explanation (abductive reasoning), argument...
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  • of reasoning is called abductive reasoning. This type is based on creating and testing hypotheses using the best information available. Abductive reasoning...
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  • did not necessarily write it, as the colonel falsely concludes. Abductive reasoning Appeal to consequences Confusion of the inverse Denying the antecedent...
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  • induction (or empiricism), deduction (or rationalism), scientific abductive reasoning, contemplation (theoria), metaphysical and instinctual or intuitive...
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