Category Archives: Systems

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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All Process, No Paradox • 6

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Re: R.J. Lipton • Anti-Social Networks Re: Lou Kauffman • Iterants, Imaginaries, Matrices Comments I made elsewhere about computer science and (anti-)social networks have a connection with the work in progress on this thread, so it may steal a march … Continue reading →

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All Process, No Paradox • 3

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Consider what effects that might conceivably have practical bearings you conceive the objects of your conception to have.  Then, your conception of those effects is the whole of your conception of the object. Charles S. Peirce • “Issues of Pragmaticism” … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 2

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Kirsti Määttänen Inference from particulars to particulars is also called analogy. Peirce gave a fair account of the logic behind statistical inference, as used in the research sciences from before his time to the present day.  … Continue reading →

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Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry • 1

Posted on August 16, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

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 on the ways those patterns of inference fit into the Cycle of Inquiry.  Much of … Continue reading →

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