Analogy

Keyword: Analogy


Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/01/2013
Quote from "Cambridge Lectures on Reasoning and the Logic of Things: Types of Reasoning"

For the sake of brevity I have abstained from speaking of the argument from analogy, which Aristotle terms [paradeigma]. I need hardly say that the word analogy is of mathematical provenance This...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 06/01/2013
Quote from "A Theory of Probable Inference"

… But in what is known as “reasoning from analogy,” the class sampled is small, and no instance is taken twice. For example: we know that of the major planets the Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 06/01/2013
Quote from "Some Consequences of Four Incapacities"

The argument from analogy, which a popular writer upon logic calls reasoning from particulars to particulars, derives its validity from its combining the characters of induction and hypothesis,...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 06/01/2013
Quote from "On the Natural Classification of Arguments"

The formula of analogy is as follows:-

S’, S”, and S”’ are taken at random from such a class that their...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/01/2013
Quote from "Notes for my Logical Criticism of Articles of the Christian Creed"

… all Reasoning is either Deduction, Induction, or Retroduction.

[—] I have constantly since 1860, or 50 years, had this question prominently in mind, and if I had ever met with an argument...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/01/2013
Quote from "Carnegie Institution Correspondence"

… Besides these three types of reasoning there is a fourth, Analogy, which combines the characters of the three, yet cannot be adequately represented as composite. …

Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/01/2013
Quote from "Probable Inference"

Among probable inferences of mixed character, there are many forms of great importance. The most interesting, perhaps, is the argument from Analogy, in which, from a few...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/01/2013
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 05/01/2013
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 (...

Manuscript | Posted 19/12/2012
Peirce, Charles S. (1896 [c.]). Lessons of the History of Science. MS [R] 1288

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., G-c. 1896-3 [sup(2)G-c.1896-3], pp. 1-47.
Published, in part, as 1.43-125. Unpublished: on blocking the path of inquiry; Ockham’s maxim and...