Abduction: Some Conceptual Issues

• Authors: Urbański Mariusz , Klawiter Andrzej
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

We claim that abduction should primarily be studied from the perspective of its use. The big question “What is abduction?” is most often interpreted substantively and this distracts attention from the instrumental aspect of this form of reasoning. We propose to address the problem by asking “How abduction is used?”. As a result of our approach we see the fact that abduction needs to be construed as concerned with both generation and evaluation of hypotheses, and, furthermore, that abduction is a compound form of reasoning.

Keywords

EN

reasoning; abduction; deduction; cognitive turn in logic

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń)
• Journal: Logic and Logical Philosophy
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 27
• Issue: 4 Special Issue on Logic, Cognition, Argumentation. Guest Editors: Mariusz Urbański, Michiel van Lambalgen and Marcin Koszowy
• Pages: 583-597

Dates

published

2018-12-15

Contributors

author

Urbański Mariusz

• Department of Logic and Cognitive Science Institute of Psychology Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland

author

Klawiter Andrzej

• Department of Logic and Cognitive Science Institute of Psychology Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland

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