This paper describes our development of analogical abduction as an extension to our work
on meta level abductive reasoning for rule abduction and predicate invention. Previously …

In this paper, we discuss the cognitive role of analogical abduction in skill acquisition.
Abductive inference makes it possible to find missing links that explain a given knack in …

Skill acquisition includes many issues, such as finding explanations for skillful performance,
finding missing links in skill explanations, diagnosing performance malfunctions, identifying …

Abduction is often considered as inference to the best explanation. In this paper, we appeal
to abduction as a way to generate all but only explanations that have “some reasonable …

Abduction is inference to the best explanation. Abduction has long been studied intensively
in a wide range of contexts, from artificial intelligence research to cognitive science. While …

Abduction, or the inference to the best explanation, is a pervasive phenomenon, both in
science and in everyday life. Recently, there is a growing awareness that key tasks in many …

Abstracting the structure of analogy in law, this paper presents a special inference schema
for abductive inference consisting of both inverse and standard resolutions. The inverse …

When I say that the strength of abductive conclusion “will in general” depend on these
factors I mean that it should depend on these factors, and that insofar as we are intelligent …

In order to learn from experience, a reasoner must be able to explain what it does not
understand. When a novel or poorly understood situation is processed, it is interpreted in …

Meta-level abduction (MLA) has been proposed as a method to abduce missing laws in
completing proofs and explaining observations at the meta-level. Based on a simple logic of …