Induction

Keyword: Induction


Dictionary Entry | Posted 03/02/2013
Quote from "On the Natural Classification of Arguments"

Induction may, therefore, be defined as argument which assumes that a whole collection, from which a number of instances have been taken at random, has all the common...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 03/02/2013
Quote from "On the Natural Classification of Arguments"

Hence the formulæ are

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Dictionary Entry | Posted 03/02/2013
Quote from "Lowell Lectures on The Logic of Science; or Induction and Hypothesis: Lecture V"

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...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 03/02/2013
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...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/02/2013
Quote from "Letters to F. A. Woods"

I have always, since early in the sixties, recognized three different types of reasoning, viz: 1st, Deduction which depends on our confidence in our ability to analyze the meanings of the...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/02/2013
Quote from "Letter draft to Mario Calderoni"

… there are but three elementary kinds of reasoning. [—] The third way of reasoning is induction, or experimental research. Its procedure is this. Abduction having...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/02/2013
Quote from "Syllabus: Nomenclature and Division of Triadic Relations, as far as they are determined"

An Induction is a method of forming Dicent Symbols concerning a definite question, of which method the Interpretant does not represent that from true premisses it...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/02/2013
Quote from "Lowell Lectures on Some Topics of Logic Bearing on Questions Now Vexed. Eighth Lecture, Abduction"

If we are to give the names of Deduction, Induction, and Abduction to the three grand classes of inference, then Deduction must include every attempt at mathematical demonstration, whether it...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/02/2013
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture V"

These three kinds of reasoning are Abduction, Induction, and Deduction. [–] Induction is the experimental testing of a theory. The justification of it is that, although the...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/02/2013
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture V, a deleted passage"

Now, I said, Abduction, or the suggestion of an explanatory theory, is inference through an Icon, and is thus connected with Firstness; Induction, or trying how things will...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/02/2013
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture VI"

Abduction is the process of forming an explanatory hypothesis. It is the only logical operation which introduces any new idea; for induction does nothing but determine a value, and deduction...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/02/2013
Quote from "Minute Logic: Chapter I. Intended Characters of this Treatise"

Argument is of three kinds: Deduction, Induction, and Abduction (usually called adopting a hypothesis). A Transuasive Argument, or Induction...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/02/2013
Quote from "On the Logic of Drawing History from Ancient Documents Especially from Testimonies (Logic of History)"

Abduction, on the other hand, is merely preparatory. It is the first step of scientific reasoning, as induction is the concluding step. Nothing has so much contributed to present chaotic or...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/02/2013
Quote from "On the Logic of Drawing History from Ancient Documents Especially from Testimonies (Logic of History)"

It is desirable to consider a large range of inductions, with a view to distinguishing accurately between induction and abduction, which have generally been much confounded. I will, therefore,...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/02/2013
Quote from "On the Logic of Drawing History from Ancient Documents Especially from Testimonies (Logic of History)"

… the distinction in respect to the nature of their validity between deduction and induction consists in this, – namely, deduction professes to show that certain admitted facts could not exist,...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/02/2013
Quote from "On the Logic of Drawing History from Ancient Documents Especially from Testimonies (Logic of History)"

Having, then, by means of deduction, drawn from a hypothesis predictions as to what the results of experiment will be, we proceed to test the hypothesis by making the experiments and comparing...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/02/2013
Quote from "Lessons of the History of Science"

Induction is that mode of reasoning which adopts a conclusion as approximate, because it results from a method of inference which must generally lead to the truth...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/02/2013
Quote from "Smithsonian Institution letters"

Induction consists in taking samples of a genus and observing how many fall into a certain species, and thence concluding the probable and approximate value of the...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/02/2013
Quote from "The Law of Mind"

The three main classes of logical inference are Deduction, Induction, and Hypothesis. These correspond to three chief modes of action of the human soul. [—]

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Dictionary Entry | Posted 30/01/2013
Quote from "Deduction, Induction, and Hypothesis"

… So that induction is the inference of the rule from the case and result.
But this is not the only way of inverting a deductive syllogism so as to produce a...

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