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基本説明
Philosophers of science have recognized the importance of abduction in the discovery and evaluation of scientific theories, and researchers in artificial intelligence have realized that abduction is a key part of medical diagnosis and other tasks that require finding explanations
Full Description
This book ties together the concerns of philosophers of science and AI researchers, showing for example the connections between scientific thinking and medical expert systems. It lays out a useful general framework for discussion of a variety of kinds of abduction. It develops important ideas about aspects of abductive reasoning that have been relatively neglected in cognitive science, including the use of visual and temporal representations and the role of abduction in the withdrawal of hypotheses.
Contents
1. Hypothesis Generation. 2. Theoretical Abduction. 3. Manipulative abduction. 4. Diagnostic Reasoning. 5. Visual, Temporal Abduction. 6. Governing inconsistencies. 7. Hypothesis Withdrawal in Science. References. Author Index. Subject Index.