abduction
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/æbˈdʌk.ʃən/ us
/æbˈdʌk.ʃən/Meaning of abduction in English
(Definition of abduction from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of abduction
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Unlike most of these previous works on abduction in the logic programming framework, in this paper we study abduction with penalization from logic programs.
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Analysis of the type of abductions made as part of the inference process provides insight into how the system is behaving when answering questions.
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Our work is evidently related to previous studies on semantic and knowledge representation aspects of abduction over logic programs.
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Our second goal is to characterize various types of knowledge base updates through extended abduction.
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As such, only the tendons essential for the index finger flexion/extension and abduction/adduction are studied and mimicked in our design.
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In his later period, he came to use abduction in a much more general way, as the process by which any creative hypothesis is formed.
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In one paragraph, he talks about ' abduction ' according to his original definition, as the matching of observed results with a given law.
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We first analyse the methods of abduction, which focus on explaining the evidence.
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The divergence can most easily be seen if we compare the definitions of abduction in some recent dictionaries of linguistics and of philosophy.
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To perform an abduction, we need to make a set of assumptions to match the new facts.
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Abduction required careful planning and might require several attempts.
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Lawyers and courts provided additional public space in which abduction spectacles could be produced.
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However, existing approaches characterize the view update problem using normal abduction, which result in somewhat indirect formulations for representing fact removal or view deletion.
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The role of deduction and abduction as reasoning paradigms is widely accepted.
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In this paper we use extended abduction and formalize different types of update problems such as view updates, theory updates, and consistency restoration.
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