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Today, it is widely agreed that abductive reasoning is not only central to scientific inquiry but also plays an important role in other kinds of inquiry and practical problem-solving situations. But while there is now a significant body of research on the role of abduction in the inquiries of cooperative communities, there is still much to be said on the role of abduction in adversarial situations, where the scientific norms of cooperation are set aside in favor of pragmatic criteria dictated by the ethics and epistemology of conflict. This chapter uses Peirce’s pragmatistic philosophy of inquiry to conceptualize the role of abduction in two key modes of adversarial rationality: detection – abductive efforts to inquire into the adversary; and deception – semiotic efforts to mislead the abductions of the adversary.
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Forsythe, S. (2023). Adversarial Abduction: The Logic of Detection and Deception. In: Magnani, L. (eds) Handbook of Abductive Cognition. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68436-5_32-1
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