Post : Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry : 7 http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2016/03/01/abduction-deduction-induction-analogy-inquiry-7/ Date : March 1, 2016 at 12:34 pm
Peircers, Here's another issue I thought had been cleared up a long time ago but I find is still causing confusion, the distinction between Peirce's concept of abduction and Gilbert Harman's “inference to the best explanation”. Re: Peter Woit ( http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/ ) • Beyond Experiment ( http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=8323 ) The phrase “inference to the best explanation” was coined by Gilbert Harman in his attempt to explain abductive inference but it conveys the wrong impression to anyone who takes it as a substitute for the whole course of inquiry rather than just its starting point. Peirce himself was always very clear about this. Regards, 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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