Yes, and I remember years ago when researching for the "Abductive
reasoning" article at Wikipedia, I found papers treating abduction as a
way to infer how one might achieve a pre-designated goal or end, as
opposed to inferring how nature or people did arrive at an observed
outcome or phenomenon.
On 3/2/2017 8:45 AM, Jon Awbrey wrote:
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Jon,
Thanks for the reply.
When it comes to the complementarity between thought and conduct,
information and control, it is often forgotten — and indeed it was
only by coincidence or synchronicity that a discussion elsewhere on
the web brought it back to mind — the same double aspect is already
evident in Aristotle's original formulation of apagoge or abduction,
where he gives two cases (1) a problem of description or explanation
and (2) a problem of construction or invention, as geometers call it.
Here is a place where I discussed this before:
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2016/02/17/abduction-deduction-induction-analogy-inquiry-3/
Aristotle’s apagoge, variously translated as abduction, reduction, or
retroduction, is a form of reasoning common to two types of situations.
It may be (1) the operation by which a phenomenon (a fact to grasp, to
understand) is factored through an explanatory hypothesis, or (2) the
operation by which a problem (a fact to make, to accomplish) is factored
through an intermediate construction. Aristotle gives one example of
each
type in Prior Analytics 2.25. I give some discussion here:
Aristotle’s “Apagogy” : Abductive Reasoning as Problem Reduction
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http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/Functional_Logic_:_Inquiry_and_Analogy#1.4._Aristotle.27s_.E2.80.9CApagogy.E2.80.9D_:_Abductive_Reasoning_as_Problem_Reduction
Regards,
Jon
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