The Extraordinary Ordinary Powers of Abductive Reasoning

By Gary Shank. 1998

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Citations in the corpus

• Explanation in Human-AI Systems: A Literature Meta-Review, Synopsis of Key Ideas and Publications, and Bibliography for Explainable AI (2019, background): “…education and philosophy make it clear that explanation, as a cognitive process, is also closely related to retrospection since explanations are often focused on understanding past events (Douven, 2011; Lombrozo, 2012; Shank, 1998; Wilkenfeld and Lombrozo, 2015; Lombrozo and Gwynne, 2014a).”
• The Abduction of Sherlock Holmes: A Dataset for Visual Abductive Reasoning (2022, background): “Humans use abduction to reconcile seemingly disconnected observations to arrive at meaningful conclusions [56] but readily retract in presence of new evidence [1].”