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Type: 
Article in Journal
Author: 
Upshur, Ross
Title: 
Certainty, Probability and Abduction: why we should look to C.S. Peirce rather than Gödel for a theory of clinical reasoning
Year: 
1997
Journal: 
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
Volume: 
3
Issue: 
3
Pages: 
201–206
Keywords: 
Clinical reasoning, Evidence-based medicine, Logic, Proof, Statistics
Abstract: 
This paper argues that Gödel's proof does not provide the appropriate conceptual basis on which to counter the claims of evidence-based medicine. The nature of, and differences between, deductive, inductive and abductive inference are briefly surveyed. The work of the American logician C.S. Peirce is introduced as a possible framework for a theory of clinical reasoning which can ground the claims of both evidence-based medicine and its critics.
DOI: 
10.1046/j.1365-2753.1997.00004.x
Language: 
English