Interpretations as cognitive event type

  1. María G. Navarro
Book:
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.)

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

ISBN: 978-84-9887-939-1

Year of publication: 2012

Pages: 698-704

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

Type: Conference paper

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Abstract

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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