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Abductive reasoning

About: Abductive reasoning is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1917 publications have been published within this topic receiving 44645 citations. The topic is also known as: abduction & abductive inference.


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TL;DR: A new, more precise theory that treats explanations as expressions that codify defeasible inferences, and provides a sequent calculus in which IBE serves as an elimination rule for a connective that exhibits many of the properties associated with the behaviour of the English expression ‘That…best explains why…’.
Abstract: Efforts to formalize qualitative accounts of inference to the best explanation (IBE) confront two obstacles: the imprecise nature of such accounts and the unusual logical properties that explanatio...

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01 Nov 2009
TL;DR: This work will concentrate on the formal deflnition of fuzzy abduction given by Mellouli and Bouchon-Meunier, and show where this incompatibility comes from and derive from it a selection of fuzzy implication, based on observable data.
Abstract: Abductive reasoning is an explanatory process in which potential causes of an observation are unearthed. In its classical { crisp { version it ofiers little lattitude for discovery of new knowledge. Placed in a fuzzy context, abduction can explain observations which did not, originally, exactly match the expected conclusions. Studying the efiects of slight modiflcations through the use of linguistic modiflers was, therefore, of interest in order to describe the extent to which observations can be modifled yet still explained and, possibly, create new knowledge. We will concentrate on the formal deflnition of fuzzy abduction given by Mellouli and Bouchon-Meunier. Our results will be shown to be incompatible with established theories. We will show where this incompatibility comes from and derive from it a selection of fuzzy implication, based on observable data. c

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the logical models of abduction, centering on the semantic tableaux as a method for extending and improving both the whole cognitive/philosophical view on it and on other more restricted logical approaches.
Abstract: In her book Abductive Reasoning Atocha Aliseda (2006) stresses the attention to the logical models of abduction, centering on the semantic tableaux as a method for extending and improving both the whole cognitive/philosophical view on it and on other more restricted logical approaches. I will provide further insight on two aspects. The first is re- lated to the importance of increasing logical knowledge on abduction: Aliseda clearly shows how the logical study on abduction in turn helps us to extend and modernize the classical and received idea of logic. The second refers to some ideas coming from the so-called distributed cognition and concerns the role of logical models as forms of cognitive exter- nalizations of preexistent in-formal human reasoning performances. The logical externalization in objective systems, communicable and sharable, is able to grant stable perspectives endowed with symbolic, abstract, and rigorous cogni- tive features. I will also emphasize that Aliseda especially stresses that this character of stability and objectivity of logical achievements are not usually present in models of abduction that are merely cognitive and epistemological, and of ex- treme importance from the computational point of view.

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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202356
2022103
202156
202059
201956
201867