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Tables of Contents for Abduction, Reason, and Science
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Hypothesis Generation
1
14
Reminiscence, tacit knowledge, schematism
1
10
Generate and test
11
4
Theoretical Abduction
15
38
What is abduction?
15
14
Abduction and retroduction
15
2
ST-MODEL and the syllogistic framework
17
8
Abduction as hypothesis generation, abduction as hypothesis generation and evaluation
25
4
The sentential framework
29
9
Abduction and induction in logic programming
36
2
Model-based creative abduction
38
9
Conceptual change and creative reasoning in science
38
3
Model-based abduction
41
6
Model-based heuristic and deductive reasoning
47
2
Automatic abductive scientists
49
4
Manipulative Abduction
53
18
Manipulative abduction in scientific discovery
53
6
Epistemic mediators and manipulative reasoning
59
4
Segregated knowledge and the ``world of paper''
63
4
Non-conceptual and spatial abilities
67
4
Diagnostic Reasoning
71
26
Is medical reasoning abductive?
72
5
Cognitive models
77
5
The need for an epistemological architecture of medical KBSs
82
3
NEOAMEMIA
85
3
Basic science reasoning and clinical reasoning intertwined
88
4
Cognitive models and medical education
92
2
The centrality of abduction
94
3
Visual and Temporal Abduction
97
28
Visual abduction
97
18
Visual imagery
97
1
Knowledge representation scheme
98
7
Imagery and problem-solving
105
1
Visual abduction
106
9
Temporal abduction
115
10
Temporal reference
115
1
Science and time: the forgotten dimension
116
3
Computational philosophy of time
119
6
Governing Inconsistencies
125
20
Roads to changes in theoretical systems
125
4
Governing inconsistencies in abductive reasoning
129
11
Finding inconsistencies I: empirical anomalies
130
3
Finding inconsistencies II: conceptual anomalies
133
2
Generating inconsistencies by radical innovation
135
1
Maintaining inconsistencies
136
2
Contradicting, conflicting, failing
138
1
Inconsistencies and narrative abduction
139
1
Preinventive forms, disconfirming evidence, unexpected findings
140
5
Hypothesis Withdrawal in Science
145
26
Withdrawing unflasifiable hypotheses
145
17
Negation as failure in query evaluation
146
3
Withdrawing constructions
149
7
Withdrawing conventions
156
6
Theoretical anomaly resolution
162
9
Scientific concept formation and spatial thinking
162
1
Anomaly resolution and spatial reasoning
163
8
References
171
20
Author Index
191
6
Subject Index
197