Preferences and explanations
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Preferences and explanations
In abductive reasoning, preference criteria for selecting the best explanation are regarded as qualitative properties (like being simpler or more plausible) which are beyond the pure causal or deductive relationship between an explanandum and its explanations. This paper is a contribution to the clarification of the relationship between preference criteria and structural properties of explanato...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Artificial Intelligence
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0004-3702
DOI: 10.1016/s0004-3702(03)00042-0