Abductive Inference
Subtitle: Computation, Philosophy, Technology
Contributors: John R. Josephson (Editor); Susan G. Josephson (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 28, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780521575454
Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Cognition & cognitive psychology; Philosophy of science; Philosophy; Computers; Computer Books: General; Artificial Intelligence - General; Logic; Natural Language Processing; Abduction (Logic); Computers / Natural Language Processing; Computers-Artificial Intelligence - General; Computers-Natural Language Processing; Philosophy / Logic
First sentence: Abduction, or inference to the best explanation, is a form of inference that goes from data describing something to a hypothesis that best explains accounts for the data.