TY - JOUR
T1 - Conjectures and abductive reasoning in games
AU - Pietarinen, Ahti Veikko
N1 - Funding Information:
Work supported by the Estonian Research Council (PUT1305: Abduction in the Age of Fundamental Uncertainty) and Russian Academic Excellence Project “5-100”. My thanks to Woosuk Park for the organization of the 2016 KAIST Conference on the Logical Structure of Strategic Reasoning, and to all its speakers and participants.
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PY - 2018/8
Y1 - 2018/8
N2 - There is abduction in games. Players deliberating aboutpossible future histories take those positions, which according to the standardcommon knowledge and belief of rationality will never actually be reached, asthe surprising facts that need accommodation. The need for such accommodationsets their minds in motion and trigger reasoning from effect to causes. Playersare prompted to reason to an antedating action under which such positions wouldbe rendered comprehensible, less surprising, or facile and natural. In games,reasoning abductively means to imaginatively look for where perturbations, suchas trembles or quantal responses, could take place. Its conclusion is aconjecture about such perturbations.
AB - There is abduction in games. Players deliberating aboutpossible future histories take those positions, which according to the standardcommon knowledge and belief of rationality will never actually be reached, asthe surprising facts that need accommodation. The need for such accommodationsets their minds in motion and trigger reasoning from effect to causes. Playersare prompted to reason to an antedating action under which such positions wouldbe rendered comprehensible, less surprising, or facile and natural. In games,reasoning abductively means to imaginatively look for where perturbations, suchas trembles or quantal responses, could take place. Its conclusion is aconjecture about such perturbations.
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M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85071225215
SN - 2631-9810
VL - 5
SP - 1121
EP - 1143
JO - Journal of Applied Logics - IfCoLog Journal of Logics and their Applications
JF - Journal of Applied Logics - IfCoLog Journal of Logics and their Applications
IS - 5
ER -