La interpretación como evento cognitivo expresado en razonamientos abductivos Translated title: Interpretations as cognitive event types expressed through abductive reasoning

Abstract

En esas páginas propongo una definición de la acción de interpretar según la cual esta actividad produce una forma específica de eventos denominados interpretaciones que preforman la actividad cognitiva de interpretar. Además, sostengo que en algunos casos la actividad de interpretar consiste en un proceso encaminado a la búsqueda de premisas plausibles para la formación de hipótesis explicativas consistentes por lo que la lógica de la interpretación puede ampliar el estudio de la llamada reproducción o generación de hipótesis.

Translated abstract

The purpose of this paper is to argue that abductive reasoning is part of a cognitive process of interpreting something as being something. The paper makes two fundamental claims. First, it proposes a definition of interpretation as a type of cognitive event. Second, it is argued that in some cases the activity of interpreting is a process of searching for plausible assumptions for the consistent formation of explanatory hypotheses. As a result of these two theses, it is concluded that the logic of interpretation can enrich and extend the study of so-called reproduction or generation of hypotheses. The treatment given here to abduction is contrasted and integrated into the history of studies on logical patterns of abduction and their applications.