Interpretations as cognitive event type

  1. María G. Navarro
Llibre:
VII Conference of the Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-20 July 2012
  1. Concha Martínez Vidal (dir. congr.)
  2. José L. Falguera López (dir. congr.)
  3. José M. Sagüillo (dir. congr.)
  4. Víctor M. Verdejo Aparicio (dir. congr.)
  5. Martín Pereira Fariña (dir. congr.)

Editorial: Servicio de Publicaciones e Intercambio Científico ; Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

ISBN: 978-84-9887-939-1

Any de publicació: 2012

Pàgines: 698-704

Congrés: Sociedad de Lógica, Metodología y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España. Congreso (7. 2012. Santiago de Compostela)

Tipus: Aportació congrés

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Resum

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.

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