Analogy
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/01/2013 Quote from "Cambridge Lectures on Reasoning and the Logic of Things: Types of Reasoning" For the sake of brevity I have abstained from speaking of the argument from analogy, which Aristotle terms [paradeigma]. I need hardly say that the word analogy is of mathematical provenance This... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 06/01/2013 Quote from "A Theory of Probable Inference" … But in what is known as “reasoning from analogy,” the class sampled is small, and no instance is taken twice. For example: we know that of the major planets the Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 06/01/2013 Quote from "Some Consequences of Four Incapacities" The argument from analogy, which a popular writer upon logic calls reasoning from particulars to particulars, derives its validity from its combining the characters of induction and hypothesis,... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 06/01/2013 Quote from "On the Natural Classification of Arguments" The formula of analogy is as follows:- S’, S”, and S”’ are taken at random from such a class that their... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/01/2013 Quote from "Notes for my Logical Criticism of Articles of the Christian Creed" … all Reasoning is either Deduction, Induction, or Retroduction. [—] I have constantly since 1860, or 50 years, had this question prominently in mind, and if I had ever met with an argument... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/01/2013 Quote from "Carnegie Institution Correspondence" … Besides these three types of reasoning there is a fourth, Analogy, which combines the characters of the three, yet cannot be adequately represented as composite. … |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/01/2013 Quote from "Probable Inference" Among probable inferences of mixed character, there are many forms of great importance. The most interesting, perhaps, is the argument from Analogy, in which, from a few... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/01/2013 Quote from "Smithsonian Institution letters" In 1867, I produced what I considered, and still consider proof that all arguments are of three kinds Deduction, Induction and Hypothesis, with a supplementary kind Analogy sharing in the nature... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/01/2013 Quote from "Lessons of the History of Science" There are in science three fundamentally different kinds of reasoning, Deduction (called by Aristotle {synagögé} or {anagögé}), Induction (Aristotle’s and Plato’s {epagögé}) and Retroduction (... |
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Manuscript | Posted 19/12/2012 Peirce, Charles S. (1896 [c.]). Lessons of the History of Science. MS [R] 1288 Robin Catalogue: Three Classes of Men, Science, Scientific Man, Learning, Imagination, Morality, Conservatism, Habit, Law of Habit, Mathematics, Mathematical Reasoning, Diagrammatic Reasoning, Conscience, Speculative Inquiry, Conduct, Sham Reasoning, Authority, Continuity, Desire to Learn, Blocking of Inquiry, Metaphysics, Analytic Method, Historic Method, Ricardo, Retroduction, Abduction, Analogy, Deduction, Induction, John Stuart Mill, Kepler, Copernicus, Greed, Political Economy, Study of Useless Things, Hegelianism, Il Lume Naturale, Generalization, Abstraction, Ockham's Razor, Nominalism, Economy of Research, Exactitude, Certitude, Pythagoras, Uniformity of Nature, Sampling, Paul Carus, Aristotle, Evolution, Darwinian Evolution, Lamarckian Evolution, Cataclysmal Evolution, Pound, Pasteur, Progress of Science, Ego, Soul, Testimony, Historical Documents, Hypnosis, Telepathy, Instinct, Helmholtz, Hypothesis, Ernst Mach
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