Home > Upshur, Ross (1997). Certainty, Probability and Abduction: why we should look to C.S. Peirce rather than Gödel for a theory of clinical reasoning
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Title:
Certainty, Probability and Abduction: why we should look to C.S. Peirce rather than Gödel for a theory of clinical reasoning
Journal:
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
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