Abduction As Belief Revision: A Model of Preferred Explanations

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Summary

A natural model of abduction based on the revision of the epistemic state of an agent is proposed, which will generate explanations that nonmonotonically predict an observation, thus generalizing most current accounts, which require some deductive relationship between explanation and observation.

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Published
1993-07-11
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Preference, Belief revision, Normality, Natural (archaeology), Computer science

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