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

Term: 
Induction
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. Induction is the process by which we find the general characters of classes and establish natural classifications. [—] 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: 
‘Induction’ (pub. 03.02.13-18:15). 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-0.
Posted: 
Feb 03, 2013, 18:15 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jan 07, 2014, 01:00 by Commens Admin