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Chapters in this section explore problems of abduction when inquiries are hindered or repurposed according to the pragmatic criteria of conflict. In adversarial scenarios that involve danger, uncertainty, and contingency, inquirers may find themselves compelled to exploit the operations of abduction to evade or facilitate violence, to uncover secrets and discover advantages, or to deceive the perceptions and inferences of adversaries. Through detailed investigation of some less familiar problems of abduction the authors of this section reveal the significance and consequences of adversarial reasoning for issues of cognition, ethics, epistemology, semiotics, and social research methodology.
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Forsythe, S. (2023). Introduction to Adversarial Abduction. In: Magnani, L. (eds) Handbook of Abductive Cognition. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10135-9_91
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