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The art of abduction / Igor Douven.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Douven, Igor, author.
Series:
The MIT Press
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Abduction (Logic).
Reasoning.
Practical reason.
Bayesian statistical decision theory.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Cambridge The MIT Press 2022
[Cambridge, Massachusetts] : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, [2022]
Language Note:
English
Summary:
"A defense of the rationality of adductive inference from the criticisms of Bayesian theorists"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
What is abduction?
The psychology of abduction
Facing the challenges
A closer look at scoring
The ecological rationality of abduction
The view from social epistemology
An abductive response to the skeptic.
Notes:
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
ISBN:
0-262-36991-5
0-262-36992-3
OCLC:
1334485998

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