The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Second Talk to the Phil. Club [and] Second Talk. On Deduction’

Term: 
Deduction
Quote: 

Several years reconsideration leads to this new definition. Not necessary but compulsive reasoning. [—] Deduction points to the premisses & to their relation & then shakes its fist in your face and tells you “By the eternal powers, you have got to admit the conclusion.[“] [—] Compulsive means that you are logically forced to admit the conclusion.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1907). Second Talk to the Phil. Club [and] Second Talk. On Deduction. MS [R] 754
Date: 
1907
References: 
MS [R] 754
Citation: 
‘Deduction’ (pub. 19.10.15-18:40). 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-second-talk-phil-club-and-second-talk-deduction.
Posted: 
Oct 19, 2015, 18:40 by Mats Bergman