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Abductive CognitionNon-explanatory and Instrumental Abduction

Abductive Cognition: Non-explanatory and Instrumental Abduction [In chapter one I have illustrated the basic distinction between theoretical and manipulative abduction and the other main features of abductive cognition. Further important cognitive and logico-epistemological considerations have to be added. First of all the fact that abduction is a procedure in which something that lacks classical explanatory epistemic virtue can be accepted because it has virtue of another kind: [Gabbay and Woods, 2005] contend that abduction presents an ignorance preserving (but also an ignorance mitigating) character. From this perspective abductive reasoning is a response to an ignorance-problem; through abduction the basic ignorance – that does not have to be considered a total “ignorance” – is neither solved nor left intact. Abductive reasoning is an ignorance-preserving accommodation of the problem at hand.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Abductive CognitionNon-explanatory and Instrumental Abduction

Part of the Cognitive Systems Monographs Book Series (volume 3)
Magnani, Lorenzo
Springer Journals — Jan 1, 2009
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
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978-3-642-03630-9
Pages
63 –143
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-03631-6_2
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Abstract

[In chapter one I have illustrated the basic distinction between theoretical and manipulative abduction and the other main features of abductive cognition. Further important cognitive and logico-epistemological considerations have to be added. First of all the fact that abduction is a procedure in which something that lacks classical explanatory epistemic virtue can be accepted because it has virtue of another kind: [Gabbay and Woods, 2005] contend that abduction presents an ignorance preserving (but also an ignorance mitigating) character. From this perspective abductive reasoning is a response to an ignorance-problem; through abduction the basic ignorance – that does not have to be considered a total “ignorance” – is neither solved nor left intact. Abductive reasoning is an ignorance-preserving accommodation of the problem at hand.]

Published: Jan 1, 2009

Keywords: Conceptual Change; External Representation; Abductive Reasoning; Abductive Inference; Explanatory Abduction

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