Abstract
We define a mechanism by which abductive hypotheses having the form of law-like statements are generated. We use the Socratic transformations approach as the underlying proof method.
Work on this paper was supported by funds of the National Science Centre, Poland (DEC-2012/04/A/HS1/00715).
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“Erotetic” comes from Greek “erotema” which means “question”.
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Urbański, M., Wiśniewski, A. (2016). On Search for Law-Like Statements as Abductive Hypotheses by Socratic Transformations. In: Başkent, C. (eds) Perspectives on Interrogative Models of Inquiry. Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning, vol 8. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20762-9_7
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