Post : Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry : 9 http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2016/03/03/abduction-deduction-induction-analogy-inquiry-9/ Date : March 3, 2016 at 2:30 pm
Peircers, Resistant misconceptions are never so resistant as when they hide encapsulated in catchy catchphrases. But I am nothing if not persistent in my insistence that their hidebound resistance will in time desist. Re: Scott Church ( http://www.scottchurchdirect.com/ ) @ Beyond Experiment ( http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=8323&cpage=1#comment-221815 ) Let me just say again that abduction is not “inference to the best explanation”. That gloss derives from a later attempt to rationalize Peirce's idea and it has led to a whole literature of misconception. Abduction is more like “inference to any explanation” — or maybe adapting Kant's phrase, “conceiving a concept that reduces a manifold to a unity”. The most difficult part of its labor is delivering a term, very often new or unnoticed, that can serve as a middle term in grasping the structure of an object domain. 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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