Category Archives: Aristotle

Types of Reasoning in C.S. Peirce and Aristotle • 2

Posted on April 28, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • Ben Udell • Gary Richmond Present business has kept me from following much of the recent discussion on Peirce’s three types of reasoning, but we have been down this road before and so old tunes … Continue reading →

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Types of Reasoning in C.S. Peirce and Aristotle • 1

Posted on April 26, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion In one of his earliest treatments of the three types of reasoning, from his Harvard Lectures “On the Logic of Science” (1865), Peirce gives an example that illustrates how one and the same proposition might be … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 22

Posted on March 24, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Jerry Rhee • Tom Gollier • Edwina Taborsky All through 1995 I worked on a graduate project in systems engineering at Oakland University developing my ideas about Inquiry Driven Systems.  I wrote a project report on … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 21

Posted on March 21, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Jerry Rhee • Tom Gollier • Edwina Taborsky Given a working hypothesis, as abduced in the previous post, the next phase of inquiry uses deductive inference to expand the implied consequences of the abductive hypothesis, with … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 20

Posted on March 20, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Jerry Rhee • Tom Gollier • Edwina Taborsky In passing from a sign-relational account to a propositional analysis of Dewey’s story there is an old mathematical trick, analogous to the method of adding fractions by expressing … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 19

Posted on March 18, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Tom Gollier At this point in our paper, Sue and I had already introduced the rudiments of sign relations, as far as the common notions and continuities of thought underpinning the semiotic bridge from Aristotle to … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 18

Posted on March 18, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Tom Gollier Let me dispel any notion that “the interpretant introduces the person as part of the object-sign-interpretant structure”.  We may have left it implicit or unclear in the text but the lower case “i” and … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 17

Posted on March 16, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Tom Gollier I know we’ve discussed the various meanings of the word object which make sense in Peirce’s semiotics and pragmatism generally, so let me just link to a recent comment I found in my search for … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 16

Posted on March 15, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Jerry Chandler The simple question arises:  If an abductive step is taken by the inquirer, then what? A very good question.  Susan Awbrey and I tried our hands at answering the What Next? question in the … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 15

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

A couple of phrases have stuck in my mind from my earliest days of reading about abductive inference and hypothesis formation.  One has to do with the puzzle of “giving a rule to abduction” and the other alludes to “the reticular … Continue reading →

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