Abduction

Keyword: Abduction


Dictionary Entry | Posted 03/01/2013
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture VII"

It must be remembered that abduction, although it is very little hampered by logical rules, nevertheless is logical inference, asserting its conclusion only problematically...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 03/01/2013
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture VII, a deleted passage"

The maxim of Pragmatism, if it is sound, or whatever ought to replace it, if it is not sound, is nothing else than the logic of abduction.

A mass of facts is before...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/01/2013
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). [—] An originary Argument, or ...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/01/2013
Quote from "Minute Logic: Chapter I. Intended Characters of this Treatise"

… the study of Abduction. Upon this subject, my doctrine has been immensely improved since my essay “A Theory of Probable Inference” was published in 1883. In what I there said about “Hypothetic...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/01/2013
Quote from "Carnegie Institution Correspondence"

Abduction is reasoning which professes to be such that in case there is any ascertainable truth concerning the matter in hand, the general method of this reasoning, though...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/01/2013
Quote from "Carnegie Institution Correspondence"

Methodeutic has a special interest in Abduction, or the inference which starts a scientific hypothesis. For it is not sufficient that a hypothesis should be a justifiable one. Any hypothesis which...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/01/2013
Quote from "Carnegie Institution Correspondence"

But in my paper on probable inference in the Johns Hopkins “Studies in Logic”, owing to the excessive weight I at that time placed on formalistic considerations, I fell into the error of attaching...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/01/2013
Quote from "Reasoning"

Reasoning is of three elementary kinds; but mixed reasonings are more common. These three kinds are induction, deduction, and presumption (for which the present writer...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/01/2013
Quote from "Reasoning"

Presumption, or, more precisely, abduction (which the present writer believes to have been what Aristotle’s twenty-fifth chapter of the second Prior Analytics...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 30/12/2012
Quote from "On the Logic of Drawing History from Ancient Documents Especially from Testimonies (Logic of History)"

Accepting the conclusion that an explanation is needed when facts contrary to what we should expect emerge, it follows that the explanation must be such a proposition as...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 30/12/2012
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 30/12/2012
Quote from "On the Logic of Drawing History from Ancient Documents Especially from Testimonies (Logic of History)"

I now proceed to consider what principles should guide us in abduction, or the process of choosing a hypothesis. Underlying all such principles there is a fundamental and primary abduction, a...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 30/12/2012
Quote from "On the Logic of drawing History from Ancient Documents especially from Testimonies (Logic of History)"

… what does it matter how the work of abduction is performed? It matters much, for the reason that it originates every proposition. It is true that, however carelessly the abduction is performed,...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 30/12/2012
Quote from "Hume on Miracles (H on M)"

The first starting of a hypothesis and the entertaining of it, whether as a simple interrogation or with any degree of confidence, is an inferential step which I propose to...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 30/12/2012
Quote from "The Proper Treatment of Hypotheses: a Preliminary Chapter, toward an Examination of Hume's Argument against Miracles, in its Logic and in its History"

Now, in an inquiry concerning a hypothesis in general, three distinct stages have to be recognized, these stages being governed by entirely different logical principles. ...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 30/12/2012
Quote from "The Proper Treatment of Hypotheses: a Preliminary Chapter, toward an Examination of Hume's Argument against Miracles, in its Logic and in its History"

A singular salad is abduction, whose chief elements are its groundlessness, its ubiquity, and its trustworthiness. [—]

Abduction is that kind of operation...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 30/12/2012
Quote from "The Proper Treatment of Hypotheses: a Preliminary Chapter, toward an Examination of Hume's Argument against Miracles, in its Logic and in its History"

Any novice in logic may well be surprised at my calling a guess an inference. It is equally easy to define inference so as to exclude or include abduction. But all the objects of logical study...

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...

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...

Article in Journal | Posted 24/12/2012
Merrell, Floyd, Queiroz, Joao (2010). Icons and Abduction
In our effort to relate abductive process to iconic semiosis, we argue that meaning begins the process of its development as an icon, and logic of abduction is the logic responsible for this iconic...

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