文档介绍：ABDUCTIVE REASONING
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STUDIES IN EPISTEMOLOGY,
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DIRK VAN DALEN, University of Utrecht, herlands
THEO . KUIPERS, University of Groningen, herlands
TEDDY SEIDENFELD, Carnegie Mellon University, .
PATRICK SUPPES, Stanford University, California, .
JAN WOLEN´SKI, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
VOLUME 330
ABDUCTIVE REASONING
LOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS INTO
DISCOVERY AND EXPLANATION
by
ATOCHA ALISEDA
National Autonomous University of Mexico
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Contents
Dedication v
Foreword xi
Part I Conceptual Framework
1. LOGICS OF GENERATION AND EVALUATION 3
1 Introduction 3
2 Heuristics: A Legacy of the Greeks 4
3 Is There a Logic of Discovery? 6
4 Karl Popper and Herbert Simon 12
5 Logics for Scientific Methodology 21
6 Discussion and Conclusions 24
2. WHAT IS ABDUCTION? 27
1 Introduction 27
2 What is Abduction? 28
3 The Founding Father: . Peirce 35
4 Philosophy