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Abduction and Induction

Essays on their Relation and Integration

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Editors:
  1. Peter A. Flach

    1. University of Bristol, UK

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  2. Antonis C. Kakas

    1. University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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Part of the book series: Applied Logic Series (APLS, volume 18)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Abductive and Inductive Reasoning: Background and Issues

    1. Abductive and Inductive Reasoning: Background and Issues

      • Peter A. Flach, Antonis C. Kakas
      Pages 1-27

  3. The philosophy of abduction and induction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29
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    2. Smart Inductive Generalizations are Abductions

      • John R. Josephson
      Pages 31-44

    3. Abduction as Epistemic Change: A Peircean Model in Artificial Intelligence

      • Atocha Aliseda
      Pages 45-58

    4. Abduction: Between Conceptual Richness and Computational Complexity

      • Stathis Psillos
      Pages 59-74

  4. The logic of abduction and induction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. On Relationships between Induction and Abduction: A Logical Point of View

      • Brigitte Bessant
      Pages 77-87

    3. On the Logic of Hypothesis Generation

      • Peter A. Flach
      Pages 89-106

    4. Abduction and Induction from a Non-Monotonic Reasoning Perspective

      • Nicolas Lachiche
      Pages 107-116

    5. Unified Inference in Extended Syllogism

      • Pei Wang
      Pages 117-129

  5. The integration of abduction and induction: an Artificial Intelligence perspective

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. On the Relations between Abductive and Inductive Explanation

      • Luca Console, Lorenza Saitta
      Pages 133-151

    3. Learning, Bayesian Probability, Graphical Models, and Abduction

      • David Poole
      Pages 153-168

    4. On the Relation between Abductive and Inductive Hypotheses

      • Akinori Abe
      Pages 169-180

    5. Integrating Abduction and Induction in Machine Learning

      • Raymond J. Mooney
      Pages 181-191

  6. The integration of abduction and induction: a Logic Programming perspective

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193
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    2. Abduction and Induction Combined in a Metalogic Framework

      • Henning Christiansen
      Pages 195-211

    3. Learning Abductive and Nonmonotonic Logic Programs

      • Katsumi Inoue, Hiromasa Haneda
      Pages 213-231

    4. Cooperation of Abduction and Induction in Logic Programming

      • Evelina Lamma, Paola Mello, Fabrizio Riguzzi, Floriana Esposito, Stefano Ferilli, Giovanni Semeraro
      Pages 233-252
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About this book

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.

Reviews

`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

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Bristol, UK

    Peter A. Flach

  • University of Cyprus, Cyprus

    Antonis C. Kakas

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Abduction and Induction

  • Book Subtitle: Essays on their Relation and Integration

  • Editors: Peter A. Flach, Antonis C. Kakas

  • Series Title: Applied Logic Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0606-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6250-0Published: 30 April 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5433-3Published: 15 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-0606-3Published: 18 April 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1386-2790

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 309

  • Topics: Mathematical Logic and Foundations, Logic, Artificial Intelligence, Numeric Computing, Philosophy of Science

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