Let Us Investigate! Dynamic Conjecture-Making as the Formal Logic of Abduction

Minghui Ma; Ahti Veikko Pietarinen

doi:10.1007/s10992-017-9454-x

Let Us Investigate! Dynamic Conjecture-Making as the Formal Logic of Abduction

Minghui Ma^*, Ahti Veikko Pietarinen

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We present a dynamic approach to Peirce’s original construal of abductive logic as a logic of conjecture making, and provide a new decidable, contraction-free and cut-free proof system for the dynamic logic of abductive inferences with neighborhood semantics. Our formulation of the dynamic logic of abduction follows the philosophical and scientific track that led Peirce to his late, post-1903 characterization of abductive conclusions as investigands, namely invitations to investigate propositions conjectured at the level of pre-beliefs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	913-945
Number of pages	33
Journal	Journal of Philosophical Logic
Volume	47
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-017-9454-x
Publication status	Published - Dec 2018
Externally published	Yes

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Conjecture making
Dynamic logic
Neighborhood semantics
Peirce
Pre-belief
Scientific discovery

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