Synopses & Reviews
This book analyses abduction as an information-processing phenomenon.
Review
"This book breaks new ground in the scientific, philosophical, and technological study of abduction." Peirce Project Newsletter
Synopsis
This volume makes significant progress in analysing abduction as an information-processing phenomenon, and in describing how AI systems can be built for abductive tasks such as diagnosis.
Synopsis
This book is about abduction, âthe logic of Sherlock Holmesâ, and about how some kinds of abductive reasoning can be programmed in a computer. The work brings together Artificial Intelligence and philosophy of science and is rich with implications for other areas such as psychology, medical informatics, and linguistics. It also has subtle implications for evidence evaluation in areas such as accident investigation, confirmation of scientific theories, law, diagnosis, and financial auditing. The book is about certainty and the logico-computational foundations of knowledge; it is about inference in perception, reasoning strategies, and building expert systems.