ID - 131771490 TI - The reach of abduction : insight and trial AU - Gabbay, Dov M. AU - Woods, John PY - 2005 SN - 9780444517913 044451791X 0080460925 9780080460925 1280628839 9786610628834 PB - San Diego, Calif Elsevier DB - UniCat KW - Logic KW - Logic. KW - Philosophy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131771490 AB - The present work is a continuation of the authors' acclaimed multi-volume APractical Logic of Cognitive Systems. After having investigated the notion ofrelevance in their previous volume, Gabbay and Woods now turn to abduction. Inthis highly original approach, abduction is construed as ignorance-preservinginference, in which conjecture plays a pivotal role. Abduction is a response to acognitive target that cannot be hit on the basis of what the agent currently knows.The abducer selects a hypothesis which were it true would enable the reasoner to attain his target. He co ER -