ABDUKCIA A JEJ MIESTO VO VEDE A FILOZOFII

• Authors: Bielik Lukáš

Title variants

EN

Abduction and its place in science and philosophy

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The paper analyses four different aspects of abduction when used in science and philosophy. As a preliminary step, it presents the main kinds of abductive arguments in terms of their logical form and extra logical criteria of evaluation. Subsequently, it discusses the standard functions of abductive inference. Finally, it pays attention to four levels of difference in comparing the use of abduction in science with that in philosophy. In particular, it is argued that the difference between abduction in science and philosophy involves the distinct kinds of hypotheses, a different notion of explanation, a difference in the contexts of abductive reasoning, and different criteria for the hypothesis-selection.

Keywords

EN

ABDUCTION; PHILOSOPHY; SCIENCE; HYPOTHESES

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 76
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 391 – 406

Contributors

author

Bielik Lukáš

• Katedra logiky a metodológie vied, Filozofická fakulta UK v Bratislave, Gondova 2, 814 99 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2021.76.6.1