Abductive and inductive reasoning: background and issues

Peter A Flach; Antonis C Kakas

Abductive and inductive reasoning: background and issues

Peter A Flach
, Antonis C Kakas

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The outline of this chapter is as follows. In Section 1.2 we discuss the philosophical and logical origins of abduction and induction. In Section 1.3 we analyse previous work on abduction and induction in the context of logic programming\indexlogic programming and artificial intelligence, and attempt a (partial) synthesis of this work. Section 1.4 considers the integration of abduction and induction in artificial intelligence, and Section 1.5 concludes.

Translated title of the contribution	Abductive and inductive reasoning: background and issues
Original language	English
Title of host publication	Abduction and induction: essays on their relation and integration
Editors	Peter A. Flach, Antonis C. Kakas
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Pages	1 - 27
Number of pages	26
ISBN (Print)	0792362500
Publication status	Published - 2000

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