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Encyclopedia Article | Posted 19/12/2012
Wirth, Uwe: "Abduction, Wit, Stupidity – from Peirce to Freud"

According to Kant, human stupidity reveals, a lack of “power of judgement”, or as Peirce might say, a lack of abductive competence that confuses the relevant and the irrelevant. Peirce anticipated...