Abduction and Induction

Essays on their Relation and Integration

By: P.A. Flach (Editor), Antonis M. Hadjiantonis (Editor)

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Hardcover | 30 April 2000

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From the very beginning of their investigation of human reasoning, philosophers have identified two other forms of reasoning, besides deduction, which we now call abduction and induction. Deduction is now fairly well understood, but abduction and induction have eluded a similar level of understanding. The papers collected here address the relationship between abduction and induction and their possible integration. The approach is sometimes philosophical, sometimes that of pure logic, and some papers adopt the more task-oriented approach of AI.
The book will command the attention of philosophers, logicians, AI researchers and computer scientists in general.

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`The present book ... does throw open windows towards understanding the true complexities of reasoning, by presenting abduction and induction intertwined as a fascinating case study for `real logic'.'
Johan van Benthem, University of Amsterdam

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Foreword
Preface
Contributing Authors
Abductive and inductive reasoning: background and issues	p. 1
Smart inductive generalizations are abductions	p. 31
Abduction as epistemic change: a Peircean model in Artificial Intelligence	p. 45
Abduction: between conceptual richness and computational complexity	p. 59
On relationships between induction and abduction: a logical point of view	p. 77
On the logic of hypothesis generation	p. 89
Abduction and induction from a non-monotonic reasoning perspective	p. 107
Unified inference in extended syllogism	p. 117
On the relations between abductive and inductive explanation	p. 133
Learning, Bayesian probability, graphical models, and abduction	p. 153
On the relation between abductive and inductive hypotheses	p. 169
Integrating abduction and induction in Machine Learning	p. 181
Abduction and induction combined in a metalogic framework	p. 195
Learning abductive and nonmonotonic logic programs	p. 213
Cooperation of abduction and induction in Logic Programming	p. 233
Abductive generalization and specialization	p. 253
Using abduction for induction based on bottom generalization	p. 267
Bibliography	p. 281
Index	p. 301
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