Is Accurate the Identifi cation between ‘Abduc-tion’ and ‘Inference to the Best Explanation’?
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Contrastescontrastes.v22i1.3406Keywords:
I NFER ENCE TO THE BEST EXPLANATION, ABDUCTION,, CONTEXT OF DISCOVERY, CONTEXT OF J USTIFICATIONAbstract
The term ‘Inference to the Best Explanation’ (IBE) was fi rst coined by Gilbert Harman (1965) in order to illuminate a procedure that, according to the author, is constantly used by the scientists to explain the phenomena they investigate. Some years before the philosopher Charles Peirce (1958) had talked about an inferential procedure apparently similar called «Abduction». It was usual in the specialized bibliography the tendency to identify both procedures, so it is common to talk alternately about ‘abductive inferences’ and ‘inferences to the best explanation’. The aim of this paper is to assess if such identifi cation is appropriate or not.Downloads
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