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Examining the Plausible Side-Effects of Abduction
October 2012
ISELL2012
In the context of abduction in logic, whenever discovering abductive explanations for some given primary observation, one may wish to check too whether some other given additional secondary observations are true, as a logical consequence of the abductive explanations found for the primary observation. In other words, whether the secondary observations are plausible in the abductive context of the primary one, a common scientific reasoning task. We show this type of reasoning requires a new abduction concept and mechanism, that of "contextual abduction". Moreover, we examine and formalize its variants, including its use in expressing counterfactual reasoning. We illustrate, by means of examples, how one can employ these concepts to investigate plausible side-effects of interest (the inspection points) in order to help choose among abductive solutions.
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Luís Moniz Pereira, Alexandre Miguel Pinto
Olga Pombo et al.
Intl. Symp. on Epistemology, Logic and Language (ISELL2012)
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Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
http://cfcul.fc.ul.pt/projectos/Projecto_Knowledge/ISELL2012/pages/home.html
ISELL2012
20-21
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http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/~lmp/publications/online-papers/ISELL2012%20abstract.pdf
http://cfcul.fc.ul.pt/projectos/Projecto_Knowledge/ISELL2012/pages/files/bookletISELL2012.pdf
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Luís Moniz Pereira and Alexandre Miguel Pinto, Examining the Plausible Side-Effects of Abduction, in: Olga Pombo et al. (eds), Intl. Symp. on Epistemology, Logic and Language (ISELL2012), Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, http://cfcul.fc.ul.pt/projectos/Projecto_Knowledge/ISELL2012/pages/home.html, Vol. ISELL2012, Pag. 20-21, (http://cfcul.fc.ul.pt/projectos/Projecto_Knowledge/ISELL2012/pages/files/bookletISELL2012.pdf), http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/~lmp/publications/online-papers/ISELL2012%20abstract.pdf, October 2012.
<a href="/people/members/view.php?code=6175f826202ff877fba2ad77784cb9cb" class="author">Luís Moniz Pereira</a> and <a href="/people/members/view.php?code=76dee43781430d064f62dee3fbdf47a8" class="author">Alexandre Miguel Pinto</a>, <b>Examining the Plausible Side-Effects of Abduction</b>, in: Olga Pombo et al. (eds), <u>Intl. Symp. on Epistemology, Logic and Language (ISELL2012)</u>, Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, http://cfcul.fc.ul.pt/projectos/Projecto_Knowledge/ISELL2012/pages/home.html, Vol. ISELL2012, Pag. 20-21, (<a href="http://cfcul.fc.ul.pt/projectos/Projecto_Knowledge/ISELL2012/pages/files/bookletISELL2012.pdf" target="_blank">url</a>), <i>http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/~lmp/publications/online-papers/ISELL2012%20abstract.pdf</i>, October 2012.
@inproceedings {ISELL2012, author = {Lu\'{\i}s Moniz Pereira and Alexandre Miguel Pinto}, editor = {Olga Pombo et al.}, title = {Examining the Plausible Side-Effects of Abduction}, booktitle = {Intl. Symp. on Epistemology, Logic and Language (ISELL2012)}, publisher = {Centro de Filosofia das Ci{\^e}ncias da Universidade de Lisboa}, address = {http://cfcul.fc.ul.pt/projectos/Projecto_Knowledge/ISELL2012/pages/home.html}, volume = {ISELL2012}, pages = {20-21}, note = {http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/~lmp/publications/online-papers/ISELL2012%20abstract.pdf}, url = {http://cfcul.fc.ul.pt/projectos/Projecto_Knowledge/ISELL2012/pages/files/bookletISELL2012.pdf}, abstract = {In the context of abduction in logic, whenever discovering abductive explanations for some given primary observation, one may wish to check too whether some other given additional secondary observations are true, as a logical consequence of the abductive explanations found for the primary observation. In other words, whether the secondary observations are plausible in the abductive context of the primary one, a common scientific reasoning task. We show this type of reasoning requires a new abduction concept and mechanism, that of "contextual abduction". Moreover, we examine and formalize its variants, including its use in expressing counterfactual reasoning. We illustrate, by means of examples, how one can employ these concepts to investigate plausible side-effects of interest (the inspection points) in order to help choose among abductive solutions.}, keywords = {Contextual Abduction, Side-Effects, Plausibility}, month = {October}, year = {2012}, }
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