Peirce List, There is a brief discussion of the relation between the theory of signs and the theory of inquiry, as illuminated by selections from Aristotle, Peirce, Dewey, and others, in the following paper:
http://web.archive.org/web/19970626071826/http://chss.montclair.edu/inquiry/fall95/awbrey.html Jon Eugene Halton wrote: > > Dear Rafe, > > Yes, there are many similarities to be sure. But one problem in saying > there is a parallel "conjectural turn" is that Peirce actually did > develop a logic of conjecture, that is, abduction, whereas Popper, > whose book ''Logik der Forschung'' was strangely translated into > English as ''The Logic of Discovery'', did not have a logic of > discovery, abduction, or conjecture. > > In Popper's words: "The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, > seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of it ... > my view of the matter, for what it is worth, is that there is no such thing as a > logical method of having new ideas, or a logical reconstruction of this process. > My view may be expressed by saying that every discovery contains 'an irrational > element' or a 'creative intuition,' in Bergson's sense" (Popper 1968: 31-32). > > Here Popper expresses the common idea shared by rationalists and positivists alike, > as I put it in my book ''Meaning and Modernity'', that inquiry begins with an irrational > intuition, a creative insight that is not an inference from observed facts, and whose > consequences somehow provide the guiding idea of an inquiry, despite the fact that the > idea itself is utterly illogical. Peirce, by contrast, demonstrates that conjecture > can be taken as reasonable, logical inference, and subject to further testing. > > Dewey also developed a theory of inquiry with similarities to Peirce's abduction, > where inquiry is "the progressive determination of a problem and its solution," > beginning in the "indeterminate situation." > > Gene -- facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/JonnyCache inquiry list: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/ mwb: http://www.mywikibiz.com/Directory:Jon_Awbrey knol: http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/3fkwvf69kridz/1 oeiswiki: http://www.oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the PEIRCE-L listserv. To remove yourself from this list, send a message to lists...@listserv.iupui.edu with the line "SIGNOFF PEIRCE-L" in the body of the message. To post a message to the list, send it to PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
