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Modeling creative abduction Bayesian style

Schurz (Synthese 164:201–234, 2008) proposed a justification of creative abduction on the basis of the Reichenbachian principle of the common cause. In this paper we take up the idea of combining creative abduction with causal principles and model instances of successful creative abduction within a...

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Autores principales: Feldbacher-Escamilla, Christian J., Gebharter, Alexander
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6383602/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30873247
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13194-018-0234-4
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description Schurz (Synthese 164:201–234, 2008) proposed a justification of creative abduction on the basis of the Reichenbachian principle of the common cause. In this paper we take up the idea of combining creative abduction with causal principles and model instances of successful creative abduction within a Bayes net framework. We identify necessary conditions for such inferences and investigate their unificatory power. We also sketch several interesting applications of modeling creative abduction Bayesian style. In particular, we discuss use-novel predictions, confirmation, and the problem of underdetermination in the context of abductive inferences.
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spelling pubmed-63836022019-03-12 Modeling creative abduction Bayesian style Feldbacher-Escamilla, Christian J. Gebharter, Alexander Eur J Philos Sci Paper in General Philosophy of Science Schurz (Synthese 164:201–234, 2008) proposed a justification of creative abduction on the basis of the Reichenbachian principle of the common cause. In this paper we take up the idea of combining creative abduction with causal principles and model instances of successful creative abduction within a Bayes net framework. We identify necessary conditions for such inferences and investigate their unificatory power. We also sketch several interesting applications of modeling creative abduction Bayesian style. In particular, we discuss use-novel predictions, confirmation, and the problem of underdetermination in the context of abductive inferences. Springer Netherlands 2018-11-03 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6383602/ /pubmed/30873247 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13194-018-0234-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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title_short Modeling creative abduction Bayesian style
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6383602/
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