Wrt Jerry C's contribution... Why *eros* and not *epithumia*? Wherefore relevance relation?
"My point is not that Strauss is wrong, but that he owes us an account of how the Socratic path between Scylla and Charybdis can be maintained without shipwreck." ~ Stanley Rosen. The question really amounts to "What is CP 5.189; one, two, three" and what does that entail? Best, Jerry Rhee On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Jerry LR Chandler < [email protected]> wrote: > John, Clark, List: > > > On Mar 9, 2016, at 1:59 AM, John Collier <[email protected]> wrote: > > List, > > Another point that is often overlooked in discussions of inference to the > best explanation, which I agree is not the same as abduction, though I > think abduction is more restrictive than just inference to any hypothesis > from which the evidence might be inferred, is that the best explanation > need not be a good explanation, so we need more than inference to the best > explanation to carry out inquiry responsibly. > > > The simple question arises: > If an abductive step is taken by the inquirer, then what? > > For example, say that a sinsign and its legisigns and qualisigns provide > the informative extension to generate an index, how does one take this > abductive object and move through the inferential steps needed to generate > a valid argument? > > Or, from a different logical perspective, what information is needed to > extend (in the Aristotelian sense of intensional logic) the index to the > (telelogical?) goal of the inquirer? > > Cheers > > Jerry > > > > > > > > > *From:* Clark Goble [mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] > *Sent:* Friday, 04 March 2016 12:35 AM > *To:* Peirce List > *Subject:* Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Abduction, Deduction, Induction : Analogy, > Inquiry > > > > On Mar 3, 2016, at 3:25 PM, Jon Awbrey <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > > I fully agree and many of his quotations make clear it’s not inference to > the best explanation. However we should admit that in some places he sure > seems to get close to that idea. Even if it doesn’t appear to be workable. > I’d argue that even when he appears to be talking about best explanation > he’s much more after the fact our guesses are so often quite good. > (Although I’d have to go through all the quotes to be sure that’s fair to > the texts) > > > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to > [email protected] . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L > but to [email protected] with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the > BODY of the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm > . > > > > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to > [email protected] . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L > but to [email protected] with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the > BODY of the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm > . > > > > > >
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