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Abductive reasoning — Wikipedia (en)

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Abductive reasoning (also called abduction, abductive inference, or retroduction) is a form of logical inference that seeks the simplest and most likely conclusion from a set of observations. It was formulated and advanced by the American philosopher and logician Charles Sanders Peirce beginning in the latter half of the 19th century. Abductive reasoning, unlike deductive reasoning, yields a plausible conclusion but does not definitively verify it. Abductive conclusions do not eliminate uncertainty or doubt, which is expressed in terms such as "best available" or "most likely". While inductive reasoning draws general conclusions that apply to many situations, abductive conclusions are confined to the particular observations in question. In the 1990s, as computing power grew, the fields of law, computer science, and artificial intelligence research spurred renewed interest in the subject of abduction. Diagnostic expert systems frequently employ abduction.

Tema degli esploratori: statistica e scienza dei dati (deposito sistematico; ricerca «Bayesian statistics»).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Abductive reasoning» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abductive_reasoning
Wikidata Q308495 (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q308495
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abductive_reasoning?action=history).
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