Category Archives: C.S. Peirce

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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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 4

Posted on February 26, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: FB | Ecology Of Systems Thinking • Steven Wallis Peirce sought to understand what all varieties of inquiry, ranging from everyday reasoning and problem solving to full-fledged scientific method, have in common.  Taking a cue from Aristotle he developed … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 3

Posted on February 17, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • Waves, Hazards, Guesses Aristotle’s apagoge, variously translated as abduction, reduction, or retroduction, is a form of reasoning common to two types of situations. Abduction may involve either of the following two operations. The … Continue reading →

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Problems In Philosophy • 2

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • You Think We Have Problems Classical tradition views logic as a normative science, one whose object is truth.  This puts logic on a par with ethics, whose object is justice or morality in … Continue reading →

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Prospects for Inquiry Driven Systems • 1

Posted on January 22, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

I finally finished retyping the bibliography to my systems engineering proposal that had gotten lost in a move between computers, so here is a link to the OEIS Wiki copy. Prospects for Inquiry Driven Systems • Bibliography This may be of … Continue reading →

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Relations & Their Relatives • Discussion 17

Posted on January 4, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • HR We have been considering special properties that a dyadic relation may have, in particular, the following two symmetry properties. A dyadic relation is symmetric if being in implies that is in A dyadic relation is … Continue reading →

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