Post : Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry : 5 http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2016/02/29/abduction-deduction-induction-analogy-inquiry-5/ Date : February 29, 2016 at 10:00 am
Peircers, I've been paying more attention lately to the general reception of Peirce among the e-literati and other niches of social media and the following reflection on my blog arose from that context. Re: Peter Woit ( http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/ ) • Beyond Experiment ( http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=8323 ) Peirce is simply describing the process by which we seize on an initial hypothesis or model. That choice will in practice be influenced by all sorts of previous experiences with the phenomenon in question but in principle our choice can be very wild indeed, revealed in a dream or stepping off a bus or whatever it may be. The only real test of the hypothesis or model comes by way of the deductive consequences that follow from it and the inductive confirmations or falsifications that follow those. The word abduction is a clumsy but traditional translation of Aristotle's apagoge from Prior Analytics 2.25. Happy (Quantum) Leap Day ❢❢❢ Jon -- academia: http://independent.academia.edu/JonAwbrey my word press blog: http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/ inquiry list: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/ isw: http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/JLA oeiswiki: http://www.oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/JonnyCache
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