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This chapter is framed both within the Kantean notions of sensible and intellectual intuitions and within the Peircean notion of collateral knowledge and classification of inferential reasoning into abductive, inductive, and deductive. An overview of the Peircean notion of abduction is followed by a sub-classification of abductions according to Thagard and Eco.
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Sáenz-Ludlow, A. (2016). Abduction in Proving. In: Sáenz-Ludlow, A., Kadunz, G. (eds) Semiotics as a Tool for Learning Mathematics. Semiotic Perspectives in the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-337-7_8
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