Interpretations as cognitive event type
- Concha Martínez Vidal (dir. congr.)
- José L. Falguera López (dir. congr.)
- José M. Sagüillo (dir. congr.)
- Víctor M. Verdejo Aparicio (dir. congr.)
- Martín Pereira Fariña (dir. congr.)
Editorial: Servicio de Publicaciones e Intercambio Científico ; Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
ISBN: 978-84-9887-939-1
Año de publicación: 2012
Páginas: 698-704
Congreso: Sociedad de Lógica, Metodología y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España. Congreso (7. 2012. Santiago de Compostela)
Tipo: Aportación congreso
Resumen
In this paper it is argued that abductive reasoning is part of a cognitive process that involves interpreting something as being something. In order to do so, a definition of proposition and interpretation as type of cognitive events is proposed. Taking this into account, it is established that the inferential pattern corresponding to this type of cognitive event is abductive as, in some cases, the activity of interpreting is a process of searching for plausible assumptions to form consistent explanatory hypotheses.