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Quote from ‘Lowell Lectures on The Logic of Science; or Induction and Hypothesis: Lecture V’

Term: 
Hypothesis [as a form of reasoning]
Quote: 

These differences between these two scientific inferences are so great that it seems to me essential to a right understanding of the subject that we should recognize two kinds of scientific reasoning. Induction and Hypothesis. [—] Hypothesis alone affords us any knowledge of causes and forces, and enables us to see the why of things. [—] So that we have

           Deduction
           Induction
and    Hypothesis

as three coördinate classes of reasoning.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1866). Lowell Lectures on The Logic of Science; or Induction and Hypothesis: Lecture V. MS [R] 343
Date: 
1866
References: 
W 1:428
Citation: 
‘Hypothesis [as a form of reasoning]’ (pub. 02.02.13-19:18). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-lowell-lectures-logic-science-or-induction-and-hypothesis-lecture-v.
Posted: 
Feb 02, 2013, 19:18 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jan 07, 2014, 01:00 by Commens Admin