Modelling Abduction in Science by means of a Modal Adaptive Logic

Foundations of Science 18 (4):611-624 (2013)
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Scientists confronted with multiple explanatory hypotheses as a result of their abductive inferences, generally want to reason further on the different hypotheses one by one. This paper presents a modal adaptive logic MLA s that enables us to model abduction in such a way that the different explanatory hypotheses can be derived individually. This modelling is illustrated with a case study on the different hypotheses on the origin of the Moon

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10.1007/s10699-012-9293-8

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Tjerk Gauderis
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Inference to the Best Contradiction?Sam Baron - forthcoming - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

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