Abduction versus conceiving in modal epistemology. Biggs, S. & Wilson, J. Synthese, Springer Netherlands, 2019.
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Website abstract bibtex How should modal reasoning proceed? Here we compare abduction-based and conceiving-based modal epistemologies, and argue that an abduction-based approach is preferable, and by a wide margin.
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