Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology by Lorenzo Magnani

Author:Lorenzo Magnani
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg

As McMullin puts it:

Abduction begins from the facts without having any particular theory in view, motivated only “by the feeling that a theory is needed to explain the surprising facts”. Induction, on the other hand, begins from an hypothesis already arrived and seeks for facts to support that hypothesis [3, p. 88].17

In other words, abduction is the preparatory step of a theory, deduction the intermediate step for obtaining theoretical predictions and induction is the final phase of the inquiry into the validity of the latter ones.

In the following I will study the logic of abduction as the creative generation of a new theory.

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