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Abductive Reasoning
Douglas Walton
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Description for Abductive Reasoning
Paperback. A study of the role of abductive inference in everyday argumentation and legal evidence. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white line drawings, figures. BIC Classification: HPL; LAS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
This book examines three areas in which abductive reasoning is especially important: medicine, science, and law. The reader is introduced to abduction and shown how it has evolved historically into the framework of conventional wisdom in logic. Discussions draw upon recent techniques used in artificial intelligence, particularly in the areas of multi-agent systems and plan recognition, to develop a dialogue model of explanation. Cases of causal explanations in law are analysed using abductive reasoning, and all the components are finally brought together to build a new account of abductive reasoning.
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This book examines three areas in which abductive reasoning is especially important: medicine, science, and law. The reader is introduced to abduction and shown how it has evolved historically into the framework of conventional wisdom in logic. Discussions draw upon recent techniques used in artificial intelligence, particularly in the areas of multi-agent systems and plan recognition, to develop a dialogue model of explanation. Cases of causal explanations in law are analysed using abductive reasoning, and all the components are finally brought together to build a new account of abductive reasoning.
By clarifying the notion of abduction as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817357825
SKU
V9780817357825
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About Douglas Walton
Douglas Walton has published 33 books including Legal Argumentation and Evidence, One Sided Arguments: A Dialectical Analysis of Bias, Ad Hominem Arguments, Argumentation Schemes for Presumptive Reasoning, and A Pragmatic Theory of Fallacy.
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