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Showing 1 to 20 of 135 for “"abductive"”.
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Abductive reasoning and limitations of the knower
… and religiosity on a newly designed measure of abductive reasoning (Hertzog, Hale, & Krepps, 2015). Abductive reasoning is reasoning to the best explanation based on given evidence. This evidence can be incomplete and the best explanation does not need to be the correct explanation. This is …
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The Imago Dei and Blaise Pascal's Abductive Anthropological Argument
… may be properly understood as a three-stage abductive argument consisting of data (instances of humans’ paradoxical behavior), explanation (Christian anthropology), and elimination (other religions or worldviews fail to explain the human condition). Chapter 3 surveys the history of …
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A formal characterization of a domain independent abductive reasoning system
… for a domain independent propositional abductive reasoning system. On the competence level, specifications are defined for domain independent abductive reasoning in terms of finding assumption-based explanations, direct consequences, extensions and a protocol for revising assumptions. On …
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Abductive empiricism: the significance of substance in Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary
… purpose. This theory—tentatively termed “Abductive Empiricism”—would work best as a companion piece to other philosophical and literary theories, where the philosophical claims of the latter can be construed based on the metaphysical connection of the former. A theory of abductive …
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An abductive approach to Design Structure Matrix (DSM) partitioning using frequency domain scoring
… results in only one 'optimal' output. If an abductive approach is used instead, multiple solutions can be generated for the user to evaluate, some which may provide insight on useful configurations that he or she may have overlooked. In electrical engineering, we often make use of transforms …
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Integration of Abductive and Deductive Inference Diagnosis Model and Its Application in Intelligent Tutoring System
… presents a diagnosis model, Integration of Abductive and Deductive Inference diagnosis model (IADI), in the light of the cognitive processes of human diagnosticians. In contrast with other diagnosis models, that are based on enumerating, tracking and classifying approaches, the IADI …
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Theorizing in Unfamiliar Contexts: New Directions in Translation Studies
… is conceived more broadly. Advocating the use of abductive logic, the thesis infers translators‟ probable understandings of their own actions, and compares these with the reasoning provided by contemporary theories. It finds that it may not be possible to rely on common theories to analyse the …
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Evangelical worldview analysis: A critical assessment and proposal
… 3 delineate the elements of transcendental and abductive worldview analysis, respectively. Both chapters provide a brief historical sketch of the distinct methodologies. In addition, each methodology is explored in terms of its strategy, engagement with other worldviews, and strengths and …
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The Role of Strategic Problem Identification and Formulation in Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantage
… of three papers that present the results of my abductive research process and outlines my practitioner-scholar research framework. The first paper kicks off my abductive research process where I examine, through a single case-study, how CSL Limited identified and captured new sources of …
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Process-based diagnosis: An approach to understanding novel failures
… approach with the explanatory power of abductive backchaining. Candidates generated using a consistency-based approach are used to focus the abductive search for a structural model of the failed system. An implementation built on a modified ATMS and an incremental qualitative envisioner …
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Effects of Logic-Style Explanations and Uncertainty on Users’ Decisions
… and the explanation reasoning style (inductive, abductive, and deductive) on different data types and domains considering classification tasks. We set up three user evaluations on images, text, and time series data to analyse these factors on users' task performance, agreement with the AI …
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Towards a New Currency of Economic Criticism
… later. Dupin's deductive methods and Peirce's abductive logic express the nature of objects in terms of social systems of preference and perception rather metaphysics. Peirce's classification of signs as icon, index, or symbol provides a framework of signification which can be read in …
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Deliberative Bayesianism: Abduction, Reflection, and the Weight of Evidence
… context of inquiry in which it is made: in the abductive context, judgments of probability are matters of decision, made strategically in service to the investigative goal of the inquirer; in deduction, probabilities are derived based on the premises chosen in abduction, in order to explicate …
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Evaluation of a fuzzy-expert system for fault diagnosis in power systems
… expert systems, and fuzzy logic that incorporate abductive reasoning. The objective of employing abductive reasoning is to optimise an interpretation of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) based uncertain messages when the SCADA based messages are not satisfied with simple logic …
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From Orr to Zacharias and Beyond: An Approach Toward Christian Apologetics from the Purview of Worldview Truth-Testing
… the faith. Chapter 3 considers the use of abductive reasoning—inference to the best explanation— within Christian apologetics, analyzing how abductive reasoning fits within the scope of testing worldview truths. Chapter 4 reflects on the philosophic underpinnings for testing the …
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Diagnosing runtime violations of security and dependability properties
… The procedure is based on a combination of abductive and evidential reasoning about violations of S&D properties which are expressed in Event Calculus.
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Dynamic Geometry Environment And Its Relation To Thai Students’ Higher-Order Thinking: Reasoning In Euclidean Geometry
… inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning and abductive reasoning. How and to what extent the DGS environment plays a role in the learner's reasoning strategies and arguments is the question at the focus of this research.<br/><br/>Vygotsky's model of tool used as mediated activity and Verillon …
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Investigaciones sobre gramáticas categoriales: Algoritmos de parsing y equivalencia entre formalismos
… the possibility of using it as the kernel of an abductive semi-robust parser; abductive in the sense of Kakas and Kowalski.
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Pipelines for Computational Social Science Experiments and Model Building
… fostering CI. We devise and execute an iterative abductive analysis process that is driven by the social sciences. In a group anagrams web-based networked game setting, we formalize an abductive loop, implement it computationally, and exercise it; we build and evaluate three agent-based models …
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Occupy Wall Street: An "Imaginative" Exploration of the September, 2011 Protests in New York City
… identified in the data as the 99% and the 1%. An abductive, grounded research strategy to explore the language used in interpreting the circumstances and details of the event, is used in conjunction with a theoretical framework provided by C. Wright Mills (1959) and Jock Young (2011), to uncover …
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