Creative Rationality: towards an Abductive Model of Scientific Change.

Abstract

I argue for an abductive model of inference that embraces personal, cognitive processes and the social processes in which new conceptual schemes are negotiated and established, by showing that an abductive schema can be applied to patterns of inference ranging from perceptual inferences involved in the creation of new interpretative concepts to the construction of inclusive conceptual schemes.The advantages of the abductive scheme is that it shows where a novel insight or interpretation fits into a larger framework of mental, physical and social activity.It allows us to provide a rationale that links discovery to inductive and deductive patterns of inference without restricting our accounts to a particular logical fann.

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