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2 - Abduction—Inference, Conjecture, or an Answer to a Question?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

Jaakko Hintikka
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Boston University
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Socratic Epistemology
Explorations of Knowledge-Seeking by Questioning
, pp. 38 - 60
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2007

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