Post: Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry : 3
http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2016/02/17/abduction-deduction-induction-analogy-inquiry-3/
Date: February 17, 2016 at 3:00 pm
Peircers,
Some thoughts on a perennial subject ...
Aristotle's “apagoge”, variously translated as abduction,
reduction, or retroduction, is a form of reasoning common
to two types of situations.
It may be:
(1) the operation by which a phenomenon (a fact to grasp)
is factored through an explanatory hypothesis, or
(2) the operation by which a problem (a fact to make)
is factored through an intermediate construction.
Aristotle gives one example of each type in Prior Analytics 2.25.
I give some discussion here:
• Aristotle's “Apagogy” : Abductive Reasoning as Problem Reduction
http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/Functional_Logic_:_Inquiry_and_Analogy#1.4._Aristotle.27s_.E2.80.9CApagogy.E2.80.9D_:_Abductive_Reasoning_as_Problem_Reduction
Regards,
Jon
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