...supposed that it would account for the facts or some of them. The form of inference, therefore, is this: The surprising fact, C, is observed; But if A were...Hence, there is reason to suspect that A is true. Thus, A cannot be abductively inferred, or if you prefer the expression, cannot be abductively conjectured...

...Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) at the turn of the century, describes the following kind of inference: The surprising fact, C, is observed; But if A were...course, Hence there is reason to suspect that A is true. How the three modes of inference interact is explained by Andersen (p.776) as follows: As he builds...

...5.189) gave the following schema for abductive inference: The surprising fact, C, is observed; (P) But if A were true, C would be a matter of course. Hence, there is reason to suspect that A is true. In this inference, an explanatory hypothesis is »abductively conjectured* from a surprising fact C...

...1970). He describes the principle as follows: "A surprising fact, C, is observed. But if a proposition, A, were true, C would be a matter of course. Hence,...there is reason to suspect that A is true" (Peirce 1965, p. 374). He goes on to distinguish abduction from deduction and induction on the basis of the...

...supposed that it would account for the facts or some of them. The form of inference, therefore, is this: The surprising fact, C, is observed; But if A were...matter of course, Hence, there is reason to suspect A is true." Inwiefern die Abduktion tatsächlich als Entdeckungsschluß fungieren kann, oder ob der...

...those parts thereby proving it. The next abortive attempt was Peirce's abduction, which goes like this: The surprising fact, C, is observed. But if A were...there is reason to suspect that A is true. (Peirce (1931-58), 5.189). Hanson is regarded as the twentieth-century's most important champion of logic of...

...form of ampliativc inference, Peircc's abduction. So let us begin there. Abduction goes like this: The surprising fact, C, is observed. But if A were true, C would be a matter of course. Hence, -.A is true. 4 As it stands, this is deductively invalid. Deductivists think it conduces to clarity...

...op. cit.. 5.189). This is what Peiree writes (loc. cit.): "The form of the inference is as follows: The surprising fact C is observed; But if A were true, C would be explicable as a normal fact; Accordingly there is reason to suspect thai A is true. Technically, ?2...

...particular form of explanatory hypothesis generation that can be summarized by the following sentence : "The surprising fact C is observed ; but if A were...hence there is reason to suspect that A is true." In a context of cause-to-effect relations, abduction can be defined as reasoning from effects to causes...

...were true. Hence there is reason to think that H is true. 3 Peirce suggests The surprising fact Cis observed. But if A were true, C would be a matter...course. Hence there is reason to suspect that A is true. 4 And Peirce makes it clear that he has in mind an explanatory relation between A and C. 3. NR Hanson,...