Abductive reasoning

Who formulated and advanced abductive reasoning in the latter half of the 19th century?

• Isaac Newton

• Aristotle

• Charles Sanders Peirce

• Socrates

Which type of reasoning yields a plausible conclusion but does not definitively verify it?

• Analogical reasoning

• Abductive reasoning

• Inductive reasoning

• Deductive reasoning

Which field spurred renewed interest in the subject of abduction in the 1990s?

• Geology

• Computer science

• Astronomy

• Medicine

What is the process of inferring some general principle from a body of knowledge where the principle does not necessarily follow from the knowledge?

• Inductive reasoning

• Abductive reasoning

• Deductive reasoning

• Analogical reasoning

In abductive reasoning, what is inferred as an explanation of a given observation?

• A random fact

• A contradictory statement

• A hypothesis

• The observation itself

What is the process of deriving a set of explanations of observations according to a logical theory and picking out one of those explanations?

• Logic-based abduction

• Set-cover abduction

• Abductive validation

• Subjective logic abduction

Which method for first-order classical logic is based on the sequent calculus and a dual one, based on semantic tableaux?

• Logic-based abduction

• Set-cover abduction

• Abductive logic programming

• Abductive validation

What is the process of validating a given hypothesis through abductive reasoning?

• Abductive validation

• Subjective logic abduction

• Set-cover abduction

• Logic-based abduction

According to Peirce, what must be adopted when explaining facts through hypotheses?

• The most complex hypothesis

• The least extraordinary hypothesis

• The most popular hypothesis

• The longest hypothesis

What does subjective logic generalize by including degrees of epistemic uncertainty in the input arguments?

• Inductive logic

• Analogical logic

• Probabilistic logic

• Deductive logic