Reasoning and Speculating

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Enric Trillas Ruíz
ECSC, Mieres, Asturias
Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7245-7881
Vol 40 No 1 (2021), Studies, pages 19-39
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/ag.40.1.6449
Submitted: 10-12-2019 Accepted: 23-03-2020 Published: 11-12-2020
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Supported on a very simple mathematical model for Commonsense Reasoning, some reflections on what could be thinking and reasoning without speculating, are presented. That is, if reasoning only were deducing and abducing but without inducing.

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thinking, reasoning, conjecture, speculation, search of speculations
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