Structural Rules for Abduction

Ilka Niiniluoto
2009 THEORIA : an International Journal for Theory, History and Fundations of Science  
Atocha Aliseda gives in Abductive Reasoning (2006) a structural characterization of the forward explanatory reasoning from a theory to observational data. This paper discusses the converse problem of giving structural rules for the backward abductive reasoning from observations to explanatory theories.
doi:10.1387/theoria.453 doaj:dc56f3712f3c4ab19af0b2e03c555966 fatcat:dfca7rccmbdf3h7ilon2suqdpi