Abduction in Animal Minds

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Title

Abduction in Animal Minds

Subject

Animals

Description

Following ideas of Ch. S. Peirce on continuity of mind (synechism) and universality of semiotic processes (pansemiotism) as well as development of the understanding of manipulative abduction in works of L. Magnani the thesis of possibility of abductive reasoning in non-human animal minds is defended. The animal capacity to form explanatory hypotheses is demonstrated by instances of grasping regularities in environment, behavior of conspecifics and even self-knowledge. In the framework of debate on instinctual or rather inferential nature of abductive capacity questions of innate and acquired mechanisms of learning, the role of language in development of explanations and priority of inner (emotional) or outer (referential) perspectives in genesis of first explanatory hypotheses are considered.

Creator

Vera Shumilina

Source

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/krt-2023-0015/html

Publisher

De Gruyter

Date

2023

Contributor

Nafisa

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Format

Pdf

Language

English

Type

Textbooks

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1515/krt-2023-0015

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