Abductive Inference
Subtitle: Computation, Philosophy, Technology
Contributors: John R. Josephson (Editor); Susan G. Josephson (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 26, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780521434614
Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Cognition & cognitive psychology; Philosophy of science; Philosophy; Inference; Philosophical Logic; Computers; Computer Books: General; Natural Language Processing; Knowledge, Theory of; Artificial Intelligence - General; Logic; Abduction (Logic) Abduction (Logic); Computers / Natural Language Processing; Computers-Artificial Intelligence - General; Computers-Natural Language Processing; Philosophy / Logic; General; Abduction (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.