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

Minghui Ma*, Ahti Veikko Pietarinen

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Abstract

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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)913-945
Number of pages33
JournalJournal of Philosophical Logic
Volume47
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2018

User-Defined Keywords

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

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