Franklin, List: On Nov 25, 2015, at 4:08 AM, Franklin Ransom wrote:
> I myself am interested in the idea of developing strategies for inducing > better abductions, but I haven't found Peirce so interested. For him, it > seems that an abductive inference is simply uncontrolled, and we can only > begin controlled inquiry once we have already a hypothesis delivered from an > abductive inference. Once again, I was rather stunned by your assertion. In my view of science and scientific method, the schema of: Quali-sign, Sin-sign, Legisign, Icon, Index, Symbol, Rhema, Dicisign, Argument is a detailed inductive roadmap on how to proceed with an abductions in a recursive manner. As I have previously mentioned, this schema is closely related to the abductive methods necessary for a proof of chemical structure. For example, for an organic structure as a sin-sign, the indices include the atomic composition, the relative proportion of each element and the calculated molecular formula. These logical terms originate in the measurements of qualisigns. The legisigns include both valence as well as other rules for arranging atoms into molecules that are necessary for abductive arguments composed from dicisigns formed from rhema as organic radicals as represented by icons calculated from indices. In my view, CSP was freely intermingling the alphabetic, the mathematical and the chemical symbol systems in this hypothesis. As I have previously suggested, CSP knowledge of the chemical symbol system appears to be a critical component of the emergence of his novel insights into logic. More specifically, he specifically drew upon chemical graph theory (such as developed from the medads in relation to organic radicals as analogs of rhema) as a basis for his own developments of a logical theory of graphs. (3.421) Cheers Jerry
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