Strategies in Abduction: Generating and Selecting Diagnostic Hypotheses.

We distinguish three aspects of medical diagnosis: generating new diagnostic hypotheses, selecting hypotheses for further pursuit, and evaluating their probability in light of the available evidence. Drawing on Peirce's account of abduction, we argue that hypothesis generation is amenable to normati...

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Publicado en:Journal of Medicine & Philosophy Vol. 45; no. 2; pp. 159 - 179
Autores principales: Stanley, Donald E, Nyrup, Rune
Formato: Journal Article
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Apr2020
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