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Abductive Inference: Computation, Philosophy, Technology
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Series: Computation, Philosophy, Technology
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ISBN10: 0521575451
ISBN13: 9780521575454
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 28 1996
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.02 Depth: 8.93
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780521575454
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 28 1996
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.02 Depth: 8.93
Language: English
In informal terms, abductive reasoning involves inferring the best or most plausible explanation from a given set of facts or data. This volume presents new ideas about inferential and information-processing foundations for knowledge and certainty. The authors argue that knowledge arises from experience by processes of abductive inference, in contrast to the view that it arises noninferentially, or that deduction and inductive generalization are enough to account for knowledge. The book tells the story of six generations of increasingly sophisticated generic abduction machines and the discovery of reasoning strategies that make it computationally feasible to form well-justified composite explanatory hypotheses, despite the threat of combinatorial explosion. This book will be of great interest to researchers in AI, cognitive science, and philosophy of science.
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