Gary F., List:

That is a valid point, consistent with my hypothesis that despite
preferring "retroduction," Peirce uses "abduction" in 1901-1906 because his
audiences were likely to be at least somewhat familiar with that term as
the usual and traditional English translation of Aristotle's *ἀπαγωγή*.

Thanks,

Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA
Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman
www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 7:24 AM <[email protected]> wrote:

> Jon AS,
>
> Thanks as always for tracing out the full history of Peirce’s own usage of
> the two terms. I too have treated them as synonymous in *Turning Signs*,
> and I don’t think Gary R was suggesting otherwise — just that the different
> terms are somewhat different in their suitability for communicating the one
> idea in different contexts, or communicating it to different audiences.
>
> Gary f
>
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