Category Archives: Abduction

Demonstrative And Otherwise

Peircers, I am constantly encountering what I perceive as echoes of Peircean themes in places where acquaintance with or interest in Peirce’s work is slight at best, and that leaves me with a lot of pent up thoughts that I’ve learned … Continue reading

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry : 2

Re: Kirsti Määttänen Inference from particulars to particulars is also called analogy. Peirce gave a pretty fair account of the logic behind statistical inference, as actually used in the research sciences from before his time until today. This logic depends … Continue reading

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C.S. Peirce • Logic of Number (MS 229)

Selections from C.S. Peirce, [Logic of Number] (MS 229) I printed a paper on the Logic of Number in 1866, and it was not made up out of the first thoughts that came into my head about it, by any … Continue reading

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry : 1

Here are several excursions I made into the subjects of Abduction, Deduction, Induction, and Analogy, comparing Peirce’s first formulations with those in Aristotle and focusing especially on how these forms of inference fit into the Cycle of Inquiry. A lot … Continue reading

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