TY - JOUR T1 - Modelling abduction in science by means of a modal adaptive logic JF - FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE Y1 - 2013 A1 - Gauderis, Tjerk AB -

Scientists confronted with multiple explanatory hypotheses as a result of their abductive inferences, generally want to reason further on the different hypotheses one by one. This paper presents a modal adaptive logic MLA (s) that enables us to model abduction in such a way that the different explanatory hypotheses can be derived individually. This modelling is illustrated with a case study on the different hypotheses on the origin of the Moon.

VL - 18 SP - 611–624 ER -