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Abductive inference within a pragmatic framework

Synthese. 2018. P. 1–17.
Chiffi D., Pietarinen A.

This paper presents an enrichment of the Gabbay–Woods schema of Peirce’s 1903 logical form of abduction with illocutionary acts, drawing from logic for pragmatics and its resources to model justified assertions. It analyses the enriched schema and puts it into the perspective of Peirce’s logic and philosophy.

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Keywords: abductionIllocutionary actsLogic for pragmaticsGabbay–Woods schema Peirce
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