Theoria (Dec 2009)

Logic and Abduction: Cognitive Externalizations in Demonstrative Environments

  • Lorenzo Magnani

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1387/theoria.448
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22, no. 3
pp. 275 – 284

Abstract

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In her book Abductive Reasoning Atocha Aliseda (2006) stresses the attention to the logical models of abduction, centering on the semantic tableaux as a method for extending and improving both the whole cognitive/philosophical view on it and on other more restricted logical approaches. I will describe the importance of increasing logical knowledge on abduction also taking advantage of some ideas coming from the so-called distributed cognition where logical models are seen as forms of cognitive externalizations of preexistent in-formal human reasoning performances

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