Perspective—Discovery Within Validation Logic: Deliberately Surfacing, Complementing, and Substituting Abductive Reasoning in Hypothetico-Deductive Inquiry
Author(s) -
Kristin Behfar,
Gerardo A. Okhuysen
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
organization science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.96
H-Index - 238
eISSN - 1526-5455
pISSN - 1047-7039
DOI - 10.1287/orsc.2017.1193
Subject(s) - abductive reasoning , deductive reasoning , pragmatism , epistemology , argument (complex analysis) , non monotonic logic , computer science , analytic reasoning , perspective (graphical) , scientific reasoning , logical reasoning , cognitive science , artificial intelligence , psychology , philosophy , chemistry , biochemistry
We propose a more explicit role for abductive reasoning, or the development of initial explanation, in hypothetico-deductive (H-D) inquiry. We begin by describing the roots of abduction in pragmati...
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