Diagnosis: What Is the Structure of Its Reasoning?

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Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 67 (1):88-95 (2024)
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ABSTRACT:How does the diagnosis process work? This essay traces the philosophical underpinnings of diagnosis from Hume through Kant, Peirce, and Popper, analyzing how pathologists amalgamate sensibility, intuition, and imagination to form new hypotheses that can be tested by evidence and experience.

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