Our Themes on Abduction in Human Reasoning: A Synopsis

Emmanuelle Anna Dietz Saldanha; Steffen Hölldobler; Luís Moniz Pereira

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-61773-8_14

Our Themes on Abduction in Human Reasoning: A Synopsis

Emmanuelle Anna Dietz Saldanha, Steffen Hölldobler, Luís Moniz Pereira

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Psychological experiments have shown that humans do not reason according to classical logic. Therefore, we might argue that logic-based approaches in general are not suitable for modeling human reasoning. Yet, we take a different view and are convinced that logic can help us as an underlying formalization of a cognitive theory, but claim rather that classical logic is not adequate for this purpose. In this chapter we investigate abduction and its link to human reasoning. In particular we discuss three different variations we have explored and show how they can be adequately modeled within a novel computational and integrated, cognitive theory, the Weak Completion Semantics.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	279-293
Number of pages	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61773-8_14
Publication status	Published - 2021

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Name	Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
Volume	59
ISSN (Print)	2192-6255
ISSN (Electronic)	2192-6263

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Dietz Saldanha, E. A., Hölldobler, S., & Pereira, L. M. (2021). Our Themes on Abduction in Human Reasoning: A Synopsis. In Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (pp. 279-293). (Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics; Vol. 59). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61773-8_14

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Our Themes on Abduction in Human Reasoning: A Synopsis. / Dietz Saldanha, Emmanuelle Anna; Hölldobler, Steffen; Pereira, Luís Moniz.
Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021. p. 279-293 (Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics; Vol. 59).

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