Metamodeling abduction

A general trend is to consider abduction as a backward deduction with some additional conditions, but there can be more than one kind of deduction. By adopting Makinson’s method to define deductive consequence relations, abduction is settled as a reverse one corresponding to each one of such deducti...

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Main Authors: Ángel Nepomuceno, Fernando Soler Toscano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Basque Country 2009-12-01
Series:THEORIA : an International Journal for Theory, History and Fundations of Science
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Online Access:http://www.ehu.es/ojs/index.php/THEORIA/article/view/449
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Summary:A general trend is to consider abduction as a backward deduction with some additional conditions, but there can be more than one kind of deduction. By adopting Makinson’s method to define deductive consequence relations, abduction is settled as a reverse one corresponding to each one of such deductive relations
ISSN:0495-4548
2171-679X