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APPINF
2003
13 years 6 months ago
On the Three Forms of Non-deductive Inferences: Induction, Abduction, and Design
Induction and abduction are well known non-deductive inferences. We shall propose that design is also another form of non-deductive inference, and, based on Barwise and Seligmanâ€...
Makoto Kikuchi, Ichiro Nagasaka
COSIT
2009
Springer
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13 years 2 months ago
The Abduction of Geographic Information Science: Transporting Spatial Reasoning to the Realm of Purpose and Design
People intuitively understand that function and purpose are critical parts of what human-configured entities are about, but these notions have proved difficult to capture formally....
Helen Couclelis