Author: Atocha Aliseda
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402039077
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Abductive Reasoning: Logical Investigations into Discovery and Explanation is a much awaited original contribution to the study of abductive reasoning, providing logical foundations and a rich sample of pertinent applications. Divided into three parts on the conceptual framework, the logical foundations, and the applications, this monograph takes the reader for a comprehensive and erudite tour through the taxonomy of abductive reasoning, via the logical workings of abductive inference ending with applications pertinent to scientific explanation, empirical progress, pragmatism and belief revision.
Abductive Reasoning
Author: Atocha Aliseda
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402039077
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Abductive Reasoning: Logical Investigations into Discovery and Explanation is a much awaited original contribution to the study of abductive reasoning, providing logical foundations and a rich sample of pertinent applications. Divided into three parts on the conceptual framework, the logical foundations, and the applications, this monograph takes the reader for a comprehensive and erudite tour through the taxonomy of abductive reasoning, via the logical workings of abductive inference ending with applications pertinent to scientific explanation, empirical progress, pragmatism and belief revision.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402039077
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Abductive Reasoning: Logical Investigations into Discovery and Explanation is a much awaited original contribution to the study of abductive reasoning, providing logical foundations and a rich sample of pertinent applications. Divided into three parts on the conceptual framework, the logical foundations, and the applications, this monograph takes the reader for a comprehensive and erudite tour through the taxonomy of abductive reasoning, via the logical workings of abductive inference ending with applications pertinent to scientific explanation, empirical progress, pragmatism and belief revision.
Abductive Reasoning
Author: Douglas Walton
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817357823
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A study of the role of abductive inference in everyday argumentation and legal evidence Examines three areas in which abductive reasoning is especially important: medicine, science, and law. The reader is introduced to abduction and shown how it has evolved historically into the framework of conventional wisdom in logic. Discussions draw upon recent techniques used in artificial intelligence, particularly in the areas of multi-agent systems and plan recognition, to develop a dialogue model of explanation. Cases of causal explanations in law are analyzed using abductive reasoning, and all the components are finally brought together to build a new account of abductive reasoning. By clarifying the notion of abduction as a common and significant type of reasoning in everyday argumentation, Abductive Reasoning will be useful to scholars and students in many fields, including argumentation, computing and artificial intelligence, psychology and cognitive science, law, philosophy, linguistics, and speech communication and rhetoric.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817357823
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A study of the role of abductive inference in everyday argumentation and legal evidence Examines three areas in which abductive reasoning is especially important: medicine, science, and law. The reader is introduced to abduction and shown how it has evolved historically into the framework of conventional wisdom in logic. Discussions draw upon recent techniques used in artificial intelligence, particularly in the areas of multi-agent systems and plan recognition, to develop a dialogue model of explanation. Cases of causal explanations in law are analyzed using abductive reasoning, and all the components are finally brought together to build a new account of abductive reasoning. By clarifying the notion of abduction as a common and significant type of reasoning in everyday argumentation, Abductive Reasoning will be useful to scholars and students in many fields, including argumentation, computing and artificial intelligence, psychology and cognitive science, law, philosophy, linguistics, and speech communication and rhetoric.
Abduction, Reason and Science
Author: L. Magnani
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 144198562X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
This book ties together the concerns of philosophers of science and AI researchers, showing for example the connections between scientific thinking and medical expert systems. It lays out a useful general framework for discussion of a variety of kinds of abduction. It develops important ideas about aspects of abductive reasoning that have been relatively neglected in cognitive science, including the use of visual and temporal representations and the role of abduction in the withdrawal of hypotheses.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 144198562X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
This book ties together the concerns of philosophers of science and AI researchers, showing for example the connections between scientific thinking and medical expert systems. It lays out a useful general framework for discussion of a variety of kinds of abduction. It develops important ideas about aspects of abductive reasoning that have been relatively neglected in cognitive science, including the use of visual and temporal representations and the role of abduction in the withdrawal of hypotheses.
Abductive Inference Models for Diagnostic Problem-Solving
Author: Yun Peng
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1441986820
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Making a diagnosis when something goes wrong with a natural or m- made system can be difficult. In many fields, such as medicine or electr- ics, a long training period and apprenticeship are required to become a skilled diagnostician. During this time a novice diagnostician is asked to assimilate a large amount of knowledge about the class of systems to be diagnosed. In contrast, the novice is not really taught how to reason with this knowledge in arriving at a conclusion or a diagnosis, except perhaps implicitly through ease examples. This would seem to indicate that many of the essential aspects of diagnostic reasoning are a type of intuiti- based, common sense reasoning. More precisely, diagnostic reasoning can be classified as a type of inf- ence known as abductive reasoning or abduction. Abduction is defined to be a process of generating a plausible explanation for a given set of obs- vations or facts. Although mentioned in Aristotle's work, the study of f- mal aspects of abduction did not really start until about a century ago.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1441986820
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Making a diagnosis when something goes wrong with a natural or m- made system can be difficult. In many fields, such as medicine or electr- ics, a long training period and apprenticeship are required to become a skilled diagnostician. During this time a novice diagnostician is asked to assimilate a large amount of knowledge about the class of systems to be diagnosed. In contrast, the novice is not really taught how to reason with this knowledge in arriving at a conclusion or a diagnosis, except perhaps implicitly through ease examples. This would seem to indicate that many of the essential aspects of diagnostic reasoning are a type of intuiti- based, common sense reasoning. More precisely, diagnostic reasoning can be classified as a type of inf- ence known as abductive reasoning or abduction. Abduction is defined to be a process of generating a plausible explanation for a given set of obs- vations or facts. Although mentioned in Aristotle's work, the study of f- mal aspects of abduction did not really start until about a century ago.
Abductive Reasoning and Learning
Author: Dov M. Gabbay
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780792365655
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This book contains leading survey papers on the various aspects of Abduction, both logical and numerical approaches. Abduction is central to all areas of applied reasoning, including artificial intelligence, philosophy of science, machine learning, data mining and decision theory, as well as logic itself.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780792365655
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This book contains leading survey papers on the various aspects of Abduction, both logical and numerical approaches. Abduction is central to all areas of applied reasoning, including artificial intelligence, philosophy of science, machine learning, data mining and decision theory, as well as logic itself.
Abduction and Induction
Author: P.A. Flach
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401706069
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
From the very beginning of their investigation of human reasoning, philosophers have identified two other forms of reasoning, besides deduction, which we now call abduction and induction. Deduction is now fairly well understood, but abduction and induction have eluded a similar level of understanding. The papers collected here address the relationship between abduction and induction and their possible integration. The approach is sometimes philosophical, sometimes that of pure logic, and some papers adopt the more task-oriented approach of AI. The book will command the attention of philosophers, logicians, AI researchers and computer scientists in general.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401706069
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
From the very beginning of their investigation of human reasoning, philosophers have identified two other forms of reasoning, besides deduction, which we now call abduction and induction. Deduction is now fairly well understood, but abduction and induction have eluded a similar level of understanding. The papers collected here address the relationship between abduction and induction and their possible integration. The approach is sometimes philosophical, sometimes that of pure logic, and some papers adopt the more task-oriented approach of AI. The book will command the attention of philosophers, logicians, AI researchers and computer scientists in general.
Abductive Inference
Author: John R. Josephson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521575454
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This book is about abduction, 'the logic of Sherlock Holmes', and about how some kinds of abductive reasoning can be programmed in a computer. The work brings together Artificial Intelligence and philosophy of science and is rich with implications for other areas such as, psychology, medical informatics, and linguistics. It also has subtle implications for evidence evaluation in areas such as accident investigation, confirmation of scientific theories, law, diagnosis, and financial auditing. The book is about certainty and the logico-computational foundations of knowledge; it is about inference in perception, reasoning strategies, and building expert systems.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521575454
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This book is about abduction, 'the logic of Sherlock Holmes', and about how some kinds of abductive reasoning can be programmed in a computer. The work brings together Artificial Intelligence and philosophy of science and is rich with implications for other areas such as, psychology, medical informatics, and linguistics. It also has subtle implications for evidence evaluation in areas such as accident investigation, confirmation of scientific theories, law, diagnosis, and financial auditing. The book is about certainty and the logico-computational foundations of knowledge; it is about inference in perception, reasoning strategies, and building expert systems.
Abductive Reasoning and Learning
Author: Dov M. Gabbay
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401717338
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
This book contains leading survey papers on the various aspects of Abduction, both logical and numerical approaches. Abduction is central to all areas of applied reasoning, including artificial intelligence, philosophy of science, machine learning, data mining and decision theory, as well as logic itself.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401717338
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
This book contains leading survey papers on the various aspects of Abduction, both logical and numerical approaches. Abduction is central to all areas of applied reasoning, including artificial intelligence, philosophy of science, machine learning, data mining and decision theory, as well as logic itself.
The Art of Abduction
Author: Igor Douven
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262046709
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
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. Abductive reasoning, which is guided by explanatory considerations, has been under normative pressure since the advent of Bayesian approaches to rationality. Douven argues that, although it deviates from Bayesian tenets, abduction is nonetheless rational. Drawing on scientific results, in particular those from reasoning research, and using computer simulations, Douven addresses the main critiques of abduction. He shows that versions of abduction can perform better than the currently popular Bayesian approaches—and can even do the sort of heavy lifting that philosophers have hoped it would do. Douven examines abduction in detail, comparing it to other modes of inference, explaining its historical roots, discussing various definitions of abduction given in the philosophical literature, and addressing the problem of underdetermination. He looks at reasoning research that investigates how judgments of explanation quality affect people’s beliefs and especially their changes of belief. He considers the two main objections to abduction, the dynamic Dutch book argument, and the inaccuracy-minimization argument, and then gives abduction a positive grounding, using agent-based models to show the superiority of abduction in some contexts. Finally, he puts abduction to work in a well-known underdetermination argument, the argument for skepticism regarding the external world.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262046709
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
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. Abductive reasoning, which is guided by explanatory considerations, has been under normative pressure since the advent of Bayesian approaches to rationality. Douven argues that, although it deviates from Bayesian tenets, abduction is nonetheless rational. Drawing on scientific results, in particular those from reasoning research, and using computer simulations, Douven addresses the main critiques of abduction. He shows that versions of abduction can perform better than the currently popular Bayesian approaches—and can even do the sort of heavy lifting that philosophers have hoped it would do. Douven examines abduction in detail, comparing it to other modes of inference, explaining its historical roots, discussing various definitions of abduction given in the philosophical literature, and addressing the problem of underdetermination. He looks at reasoning research that investigates how judgments of explanation quality affect people’s beliefs and especially their changes of belief. He considers the two main objections to abduction, the dynamic Dutch book argument, and the inaccuracy-minimization argument, and then gives abduction a positive grounding, using agent-based models to show the superiority of abduction in some contexts. Finally, he puts abduction to work in a well-known underdetermination argument, the argument for skepticism regarding the external world.
Abductive Reasoning
Author: Fouad Sabry
Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
What Is Abductive Reasoning In abductive reasoning, one makes a series of observations and then draws the conclusion that is both the simplest and the one that is most likely to follow from those facts. Beginning in the latter third of the 19th century, the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce was the one who initially conceived of and advocated for this idea. How You Will Benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Abductive reasoning Chapter 2: Charles Sanders Peirce Chapter 3: Scientific method Chapter 4: Propositional calculus Chapter 5: Modus ponens Chapter 6: Modus tollens Chapter 7: Statistical inference Chapter 8: Inference Chapter 9: Abductive logic programming Chapter 10: Working hypothesis (II) Answering the public top questions about abductive reasoning. (III) Real world examples for the usage of abductive reasoning in many fields. (IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of abductive reasoning' technologies. Who This Book Is For Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of abductive reasoning.
Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
What Is Abductive Reasoning In abductive reasoning, one makes a series of observations and then draws the conclusion that is both the simplest and the one that is most likely to follow from those facts. Beginning in the latter third of the 19th century, the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce was the one who initially conceived of and advocated for this idea. How You Will Benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Abductive reasoning Chapter 2: Charles Sanders Peirce Chapter 3: Scientific method Chapter 4: Propositional calculus Chapter 5: Modus ponens Chapter 6: Modus tollens Chapter 7: Statistical inference Chapter 8: Inference Chapter 9: Abductive logic programming Chapter 10: Working hypothesis (II) Answering the public top questions about abductive reasoning. (III) Real world examples for the usage of abductive reasoning in many fields. (IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of abductive reasoning' technologies. Who This Book Is For Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of abductive reasoning.