<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . "Abductive reasoning: Logic, visual thinking, and coherence"^^ . "This paper discusses abductive reasoning---that is, reasoning in which explanatory hypotheses are formed and evaluated. First, it criticizes two recent formal logical models of abduction. An adequate formalization would have to take into account the following aspects of abduction: explanation is not deduction; hypotheses are layered; abduction is sometimes creative; hypotheses may be revolutionary; completeness is elusive; simplicity is complex; and abductive reasoning may be visual and non-sentential. Second, in order to illustrate visual aspects of hypothesis formation, the paper describes recent work on visual inference in archaeology. Third, in connection with the evaluation of explanatory hypotheses, the paper describes recent results on the computation of coherence."^^ . "1997" . . . "Dordrecht: Kluwer"^^ . . . "Logic and Scientific Methods"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "M-L. Dalla"^^ . "Chiara"^^ . "M-L. Dalla Chiara"^^ . . "C. P."^^ . "Shelley"^^ . "C. P. Shelley"^^ . . "P."^^ . "Thagard"^^ . "P. Thagard"^^ . . . . . . "Abductive reasoning: Logic, visual thinking, and coherence (HTML)"^^ . . . "Fabductive_fig2.gif"^^ . . . "abductive_fig4.gif"^^ . . . "FAbductive.html"^^ . . . "Fabductive_fig3.gif"^^ . . . "Abductive reasoning: Logic, visual thinking, and coherence (Indexer Terms)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #671 \n\nAbductive reasoning: Logic, visual thinking, and coherence\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Cognitive Psychology" . . . "Artificial Intelligence" . . . "Philosophy of Science" . .