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Towards an abductive foundation of semantic science

The aim of semantic science is to have scientific data and scientific theories represented and published in machine understandable form. There is much work on developing scientific ontologies and representing scientific data in terms of these ontologies. The next step is to publish scientific theories that can make predictions on the published data and can be used for prediction on new cases. This can be used to advance the development of science and to provide useful predictions that can be evaluated according to all available data. To make a prediction for a particular case, we need to use an ensemble of theories that fit together (are consistent) and make a prediction on a particular case. We argue that this is a form of abduction, that has similarities and differences to the standard definitions of abduction. This is preliminary work, presenting pre-theoretic foundations of the field.