I received an offline message that asked where learning occurs in the cycle of observation, induction, abduction, revision, deduction, and action.
Answer: at every turn of every cycle. John -------- Forwarded Message --------
But your cycle implies that one person just keeps going around it, re-enforcing what he already assumed (finding confirmation).
No. There is learning at every turn of every cycle.
Where is the depiction of learning?
In the pot of knowledge soup! It contains everything in memory, conscious or unconscious. Every new observation, induction, abduction, revision, and deduction goes into the pot. Every time induction makes a generalization or strengthens a habit, the new version goes into the kn. soup. Every time abduction forms a new hypothesis, it is added as a revision or extension to the previous knowledge. Every time deduction generates a prediction, it is tested by action, and the result (success or failure) adjusts the contents of the kn. soup. Peirce rarely talked about memory and revision, because it's so obvious. He did it all the time. His vast writings and revisions testify to its importance. As I said, everything in that cycle is explicitly or implicitly derived from his writings. His MSS are a partial record of what he was learning throughout his life. John
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