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100	1		_aAizawa, Kenneth, _d1961- _eauthor _4aut _4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002113501 _1http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n2002113501
245	1	0	_aCompositional abduction and scientific interpretation : _ba granular approach / _cKenneth Aizawa.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2025.
300			_a1 online resource (xi, 260 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
341	0		_3PDF _bSingle logical reading order _2onix
341	0		_3PDF _bTable of content navigation _2onix
341	0		_bIndex navigation _2onix
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Nov 2025).
506	0		_aOpen Access. _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_aAbductive reasoning is a form of inference that infers some hypothesis because of what that hypothesis explains. Unlike deductive reasoning, it yields a plausible conclusion but does not definitively verify it. The theory of compositional abduction developed in this book provides a novel theory of confirmation. Aizawa uses case studies to analyse how scientists interpret the results of experiments to support compositional hypotheses (hypotheses about what things are composed of) and suggests that they use a kind of abduction. His theory is offered as an alternative account of scientific reasoning that the logical empiricists would have interpreted as hypothetico-deductive confirmation. It is also an alternative to the Peircean interpretation of the role of abduction in science. It will be valuable to philosophers of science, those working on hypothetico-deductive confirmation, Peirce's view of abduction, inference to the best explanation, and the New Mechanism. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
532	2		_aWARNING - Flashing hazard
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650		0	_aAbduction (Logic) _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85000116
650		0	_aReasoning _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85111790
650		0	_aInference _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85066082
650		0	_aScience _xMethodology _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118577
650		0	_aScience _xPhilosophy _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118582
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781009435697
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781009435710
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