Post : Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry : 10 http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2016/03/04/abduction-deduction-induction-analogy-inquiry-10/ Date : March 4, 2016 at 3:30 pm
Peircers, Continuing efforts to clarify the distinctive character and role of abductive reasoning within the well-formed inquiry. Re: Beyond Experiment http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=8323 • Scott Church http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=8323&cpage=1#comment-221819 Names are not important of course, except for the purpose of communication. The important thing is for us to distinguish hypothesis formation from hypothesis evaluation. Now, there happens to be a long tradition of using the word “abduction” to distinguish that former, most incipient stage of inquiry and I think it serves communication to preserve that tradition. Concepts, hypotheses, and theories have to be formed, logically speaking, before they can be evaluated. In complex inquiries extending over long periods of time, formation, evaluation, and re-formation will of course proceed in cascades of parallel and series operations, but the analytic distinction between elements and mixtures is still worth its salt. The role of ab-, de-, in-duction in the cycle of inquiry is discussed a bit further in the following article: • InterSciWiki • Inquiry http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/Inquiry Resources ========= • Prospects for Inquiry Driven Systems http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/Prospects_for_Inquiry_Driven_Systems • Introduction to Inquiry Driven Systems http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/Introduction_to_Inquiry_Driven_Systems • Functional Logic : Inquiry and Analogy http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/Functional_Logic_:_Inquiry_and_Analogy 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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