Gestalt Effects in Counterfactual and Abductive Inference

The paper begins by focusing the basic idea that Gestalt phenomena belong not only to the realm of perception but to the realm of inference. It is shown that Gestalt effects (i.e. the derivability of incompatible indifferent conclusions on the basis of the same background information) often occur both in counterfactual and in ampliative

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: IGPL
• Authors: Claudio Pizzi
• Keywords: Alleged Gestalt Phenomena, Background Information, Basic Idea, IGPL 2006