Category Archives: Aristotle

Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 14

Posted on March 9, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Clark Goble • John Collier As far as what gives a rule to abduction, as Peirce styled a question I found echoed in minds of inquiry from W.S. McCulloch to Noam Chomsky, Peirce had already given the … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 13

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: C.S. Peirce • Doctrine Of Individuals Re: Peirce List • Martin Kettelhut I’ve been calling attention to what Peirce wrote about the “Doctrine of Individuals” (what we’d probably call a theory of individuals) for quite some time.  Just for … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 12

Posted on March 6, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Jerry Rhee The tools Peirce gave us for articulating complex cases of inquiry processes, as mediated by complex cases of triadic sign relations, are worth sharpening up to the point where we can make a significant … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 11

Posted on March 5, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Gary Richmond Time and again Peirce refers to the logic of relatives as the key to understanding the more complex issues in his theory of inquiry and theory of signs.  I find this to be good … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 10

Posted on March 4, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Beyond Experiment • Scott Church Names are not important of course, except for the purpose of communication.  The important thing is for us to distinguish hypothesis formation from hypothesis evaluation.  Now, there happens to be a long tradition of … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 9

Posted on March 3, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Beyond Experiment • Scott Church Let me just say again that abduction is not “inference to the best explanation”.  That gloss derives from a later attempt to rationalize Peirce’s idea and it has led to a whole literature of … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 8

Posted on March 2, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peter Woit • Beyond Experiment I have no horse in this race (cat in this box?) as far as multiverses and polycosmoi go.  I will limit myself to clearing up popular confusions about Peirce’s concept of abductive inference. Analytic philosophy … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 7

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peter Woit • Beyond Experiment The phrase “inference to the best explanation” was coined by Gilbert Harman in his attempt to explain abductive inference but it conveys the wrong impression to anyone who takes it as a substitute for … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 6

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peter Woit • Beyond Experiment There is a lot of misunderstanding about the requirement of falsifiability.  At root it is simply the idea that an empirical law is not a logical tautology.  I don’t see any reason to dispense … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 5

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peter Woit • Beyond Experiment Peirce is simply describing the process by which we seize on an initial hypothesis or model.  That choice will in practice be influenced by all sorts of previous experiences with the phenomenon in question … Continue reading →

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