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Quote from ‘Lowell Lectures on The Logic of Science; or Induction and Hypothesis: Lecture VI. Practical Maxims of Logic’

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

The inductive or hypothetic conclusion, therefore, stands to one of its premisses in the relation of a deductive or syllogistic premiss to its conclusion, the second premiss of the induction or hypothesis remaining a premiss in this explaining syllogism. It is in fact a sufficient definition of a scientific inference to say that it is the inference of one of the premisses of a syllogism from the other premiss and from the conclusion.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1866). Lowell Lectures on The Logic of Science; or Induction and Hypothesis: Lecture VI. Practical Maxims of Logic. MS [R] 696
Date: 
1866
References: 
W 1:441
Citation: 
‘Hypothesis [as a form of reasoning]’ (pub. 02.02.13-18:56). 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-vi.
Posted: 
Feb 02, 2013, 18:56 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jan 07, 2014, 01:00 by Commens Admin