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Cameron Shelley
Researcher at University of Waterloo
Publications - 36
Citations - 680
Cameron Shelley is an academic researcher from University of Waterloo. The author has contributed to research in topics: Analogy & Abductive reasoning. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 34 publications receiving 636 citations. Previous affiliations of Cameron Shelley include Dalhousie University & University of Michigan.
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Abductive Reasoning: Logic, Visual Thinking, and Coherence
Paul Thagard,Cameron Shelley +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss abductive reasoning, that is, reasoning in which explanatory hypotheses are formed and evaluated, and they criticise two recent formal logical models of abduction, arguing that explanation is not deduction; hypotheses are layered; abduction is sometimes creative; hypotheses may be revolutionary; completeness is elusive; simplicity is complex.
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Visual Abductive Reasoning in Archaeology
TL;DR: Examples of visual abductive reasoning by archaeologists are discussed, analyzing them according to the visual information and the process of inference employed to support the conclusion that visual abduction is useful to scientists under certain conditions and that it is amenable to detailed study.
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The bicoherence theory of situational irony
TL;DR: In this paper, the bicoherence theory of situational irony is applied to a corpus of 250 examples of situational ironies gathered automatically from electronic news sources and a useful taxonomy of irony is produced, new predictions and insights into situational irony are discussed.
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Rhetorical and Demonstrative Modes of Visual Argument: Looking at Images of Human Evolution
TL;DR: The authors examines the character of interaction between demonstrative and rhetorical modes of visual argumentation by drawing upon two examples: the first includes illustrations from paleo-anthropo-humano...
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Multiple Analogies in Science and Philosophy
TL;DR: Shelley as mentioned in this paper argues that multiple analogies are not simply concatenated single analogies but are instead the general form of analogical inference, of which a single analogy is a special case.