Abduction (Inference to the Best Explanation)

March 15, 2015 12:00 pm

A detailed explanation of what Abductive reasoning is, several varieties of it, how it relates to deduction, induction, Bayesian Epistemology, the Problem of Underdetermination, and Skepticism as well as several objections to it.

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