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Quote from ‘Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture V’

Quote: 

Among these opinions which I have constantly maintained is this, that while Abductive and Inductive reasoning are utterly irreducible, either to the other or to Deduction, or Deduction to either of them, yet the only rationale of these methods is essentially Deductive or Necessary. If then we can state wherein the validity of Deductive reasoning lies, we shall have defined the foundation of logical goodness of whatever kind.

Date: 
1903
References: 
CP 5.146
Citation: 
‘Abduction’ (pub. 03.01.13-18:52). 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-harvard-lectures-pragmatism-lecture-v.
Posted: 
Jan 03, 2013, 18:52 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jan 07, 2014, 01:01 by Commens Admin