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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