The reach of abduction : insight and trial

Acknowledgements. Preface. A Practical Logic of Cognitive Systems 1. Introduction 2. Practical Logic Conceptual Models of Abduction 3. The Structure of Abduction 4. Explanationist Abduction 5. Non-Plausibilistic Abduction 6. Diagnostic Abduction in AI 7. The Characteristic and the Plausible 8. Relevance and Analogy 9. Interpretation Abduction Formal Models of Abduction 10. A Glimpse of Formality 11. A General Theory of Logical Systems 12. A Base Logic 13. An Abductive Mechanism for the Base Logic Bibliography. Index .