Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Peirce's classifications of the sciences

On 9/2/2017 8:31 PM, Helmut Raulien wrote: [Metaphysics is] "First in dignity, last in the order of learning": What is meant by "learning"? Is it the learning of the researcher, or the learning of the pupil, who is being taught by the researcher the results of the research? The word Aquinas

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Deduction, induction, abduction, categories

Dear list, If what we all say is true, then when it comes to making our ideas clear, it appears Peirce was not altogether a Greek-minded man. With best wishes, Jerry Rhee On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 9:41 AM, Stephen C. Rose wrote: > All through this, it seems to me that

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Deduction, induction, abduction, categories

All through this, it seems to me that no form of logic can be tied to one or two or three. If all thought is signs getting into specifying where they are is impossible since they are everywhere.I see Peirce as an ethicist and aesthetician who never got to the logical conclusion of how the

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Deduction, induction, abduction, categories

Dear All - To the question of category-classification of inference types: In Peirce's mature years, after 1900, he vacillated between two solutions, both having Abduction as First, but one version taking Induction as Second and Deduction as Third; the other vice versa. The 1-Ab, 2-De, 3-In

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Deduction, induction, abduction, categories

Helmut, you wrote “Deduction has one mode: True. Induction has two modes: true and false. Abduction has three modes: True, false, and nonsentic.” Actually all of these “modes” belong properly to deduction, or “necessary reasoning,” where a proposition is either true or false; as for absurdity,