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Dictionary Entry | Posted 12/03/2013 Quote from "Cambridge Lectures on Reasoning and the Logic of Things: Types of Reasoning" This probable reasoning in the second figure is, I apprehend, what Aristotle meant by {apagögé}. There are strong reasons for believing that in the chapter on the subject in the Prior Analytics,... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 12/03/2013 Quote from "Cambridge Lectures on Reasoning and the Logic of Things: Types of Reasoning" We see three types of reasoning. The first figure empraces all Deduction whether necessary of probable. [—] The third figure is Induction by means of which we ascertain how often in the ordinary... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 12/03/2013 Quote from "Cambridge Lectures on Reasoning and the Logic of Things: The First Rule of Logic" As for retroduction, it is itself an experiment. A retroductive research is an experimental research; and when we look upon Induction and Deduction from the point of view of Experiment and... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 12/03/2013 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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Dictionary Entry | Posted 12/03/2013 Quote from "Lessons of the History of Science" Retroduction is the provisional adoption of a hypothesis, because every possible consequence of it is capable of experimental verification, so that the persevering... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 12/03/2013 Quote from "Lessons of the History of Science" It is certain that the only hope of retroductive reasoning ever reaching the truth is that there may be some natural tendency toward an agreement between the ideas which suggest themselves to the... |
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Manuscript | Posted 03/02/2013 Peirce, Charles S. (1908 [c.]). A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God (G). MS [R] 842 From the Robin Catalogue: Richard Whately, Logic, God, Humble Argument, Logical Critic, Belief, Cartesian Doubt, Doubt, Kepler, Galileo, Isaac Newton, Daniel Bernoulli, Robert Boyle, John Dalton, Instinct, Physical Science, Psychical Science, Mathematics, Retroduction, Icon, Index, Symbol, Induction, Deduction, Proper Name, Logistic Deduction, Syllogical Deduction, Definitory Deduction, Ratiocinative Deduction, Generalization, Choresy, Cyclosy, Periphraxy, Apeiry, Logical Analysis, Demonstration, Francis Bacon, Crude Induction, Quantitative Induction, Qualitative Induction, Karl Pearson, John Stuart Mill, Uniformity of Nature, Philodemus, Pierre Simon Laplace, Probability, Miracle, Law of Nature, Tychism, Edward Montgomery, Evolutionary Theory, Emanational Theory, Ogden Rood, Scholastic Realism, Rhema, Subject, Categorical Proposition
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 03/02/2013 Quote from "Letters to Paul Carus" As for the validity of the hypothesis, the retroduction, there seems at first to be no room at all for the question of what supports it, since from an actual fact it only... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 03/02/2013 Quote from "Letters to Paul Carus" … the division of the elementary kinds of reasoning into three heads was made by me in my first lectures and was published in 1869 in Harris’s Journal of Speculative Philosophy. I still... |
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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... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/02/2013 Quote from "A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God" The inquiry begins with pondering these phenomena in all their aspects, in the search of some point of view whence the wonder shall be resolved. At length a conjecture arises that furnishes a... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/02/2013 Quote from "A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God" Finally comes the bottom question of logical Critic, What sort of validity can be attributed to the First Stage of inquiry? Observe that neither Deduction nor Induction contributes the smallest... |
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Manuscript | Posted 05/01/2013 Peirce, Charles S. (1911-01). Notes for my Logical Criticism of Articles of the Christian Creed. MS [R] 846 From the Robin Catalogue: Dated Jan. 1911 by Christian Kloesel |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 30/12/2012 Quote from "Lecture I" The three kinds of reasoning may be designated by the letters A, B, C. A is that process in which the mind goes over all the facts the case, absorbs them, digests... |
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Encyclopedia Article | Posted 29/12/2012 Chiasson, Phyllis: "Peirce and the Continuum of Means and Ends" It may seem obvious that, before we can begin to verify a hypothesis, we must somehow “acquire” one. Yet, until Peirce began working on his theory of abduction, little thought had been given to... |
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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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Encyclopedia Article | Posted 17/12/2012 Chiasson, Phyllis: "Abduction as an Aspect of Retroduction" One of the most intriguing mysteries in American philosophy falls under the question: “Just what does Charles Sanders Peirce’s concept of abductive reasoning comprise?” Peirce used the terms “... |