Plausible reasoning is a method of deriving new conclusions from given known premises, a method different from the classical syllogistic argumentation...
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Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning is a two-volume book by the mathematician George Pólya describing various methods for being a good guesser of new...
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commonsense reasoning involves plausible reasoning. It requires coming to a reasonable conclusion given what is already known. Plausible reasoning has been...
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the latter half of the 19th century. Abductive reasoning, unlike deductive reasoning, yields a plausible conclusion but does not definitively verify it...
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assumption Plausible reasoning Raven paradox Recursive Bayesian estimation Statistical inference Stephen Toulmin "Deductive, Inductive Reasoning: Definition...
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of non-deductive reasoning, abduction does not guarantee the truth of the conclusion even if the premises are true. The more plausible the explanation...
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Borwein, Jonathan; Bailey, David (2004). Mathematics by Experiment: Plausible Reasoning in the 21st Century. A.K. Peters. pp. vii. ISBN 978-1-56881-211-3...
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Deductive reasoning is the process of drawing valid inferences. An inference is valid if its conclusion follows logically from its premises, meaning that...
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Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning Volume I: Induction and Analogy in Mathematics. George Pólya (1954), Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning Volume II: Patterns...
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existing biological and medical knowledge. Biological plausibility is one component of a method of reasoning that can establish a cause-and-effect relationship...
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