Governing ignorance through abduction

I will analyze three fundamental ways of governing ignorance though abduction, that are essential from an eco-cognitive and eco-logical point of view, in which the central role in human cognition of natural and artefactual environment is taken into account. First of all, according to the so-called GW-Schema, proposed by Gabbay and Woods, abduction presents an ignorance-preserving or (ignorance-mitigating) character: given the fact the abduced hypotheses aim at becoming truths, the basic ignorance is neither solved nor left untouched. Second, I will contend that abduction is not always ignorance-preserving, but also knowledge enhancing. Indeed, according to the eco-cognitive model (EC-Model) of abduction, I myself have recently proposed, we can easily see that, occasionally, knowledge can be immediately increased (and ignorance killed") through abduction: in this perspective abduction does not have to be rigidly conceptualized as an inference to the best explanation in the received sense, that is as an inference that, to grant truth, also takes advantage of an empirical evaluation phase, or an inductive phase, as Peirce classified it. Finally, it is important to stress that abductive cognition is at the root of two fundamental cognitive processes. On one side abductive cognition constructs (and/or takes advantage of the exploitation of) embodiments, external representations, enactions, artefacts, and props, that involve ignorant entities suitably transformed in cognitive representations and/or devices. On the other side, abductive cognition dominates those special" cognitive creative processes that lead to what I call the disseminated computational domestication of ignorant entities": I will illustrate the example of the recent unconventional computational domestication of ignorant entities, which creates novel cognitive embodiments (morphological computation).