Hypothesis [as a form of reasoning]
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 24/11/2015 Quote from "Fragments [R]" Hypothesis consists in the inference of a case from a rule & a result or from the denial of a rule & the denial of the result or the inference of... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 03/02/2013 Quote from "Letters to Paul Carus" … the division of the elementary kinds of reasoning into three heads was made by me in my first lectures and was published in 1869 in Harris’s Journal of Speculative Philosophy. I still... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 03/02/2013 Quote from "Letters to Paul Carus" A good account of Quantitative Induction is given in my paper in Studies in Logic, By Members of the Johns Hopkins University, and its two rules are there well developed. But what I there... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 03/02/2013 Quote from "Letters to Paul Carus" As for the validity of the hypothesis, the retroduction, there seems at first to be no room at all for the question of what supports it, since from an actual fact it only infers a may-be... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 03/02/2013 Quote from "Minute Logic: Chapter I. Intended Characters of this Treatise" … the study of Abduction. Upon this subject, my doctrine has been immensely improved since my essay “A Theory of Probable Inference” was published in 1883. In what I there said about “Hypothetic... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 03/02/2013 Quote from "Smithsonian Institution letters" In 1867, I produced what I considered, and still consider proof that all arguments are of three kinds Deduction, Induction and Hypothesis, with a supplementary kind Analogy sharing in the nature... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 03/02/2013 Quote from "A Theory of Probable Inference" Corresponding to induction, we have the following mode of inference: [—] Hypothesis. M has, for example, the... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 03/02/2013 Quote from "Some Consequences of Four Incapacities" Hypothesis may be defined as an argument which proceeds upon the assumption that a character which is known necessarily to involve a certain number of others, may be... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 03/02/2013 Quote from "Some Consequences of Four Incapacities" Thus an emotion is always a simple predicate substituted by an operation of the mind for a highly complicated predicate. Now if we consider that a very complex predicate demands explanation by... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/02/2013 Quote from "On the Natural Classification of Arguments" Hence the formulæ are [—] Hypothesis Any M is, for instance, P’ P” P”’, &c., |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/02/2013 Quote from "Lowell Lectures on The Logic of Science; or Induction and Hypothesis: Lecture V" These differences between these two scientific inferences are so great that it seems to me essential to a right understanding of the subject that we should recognize two kinds of scientific... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/02/2013 Quote from "Lowell Lectures on The Logic of Science; or Induction and Hypothesis: Lecture VI. Practical Maxims of Logic" The inductive or hypothetic conclusion, therefore, stands to one of its premisses in the relation of a deductive or syllogistic premiss to its conclusion, the second... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/02/2013 Quote from "Lowell Lectures on The Logic of Science; or Induction and Hypothesis: Lecture IX" We come to […] the argument. [—] It will therefore be divided into three species according as this representation is a likeness, index, or symbol. These three species are the same as... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/02/2013 Quote from "Harvard Lectures on the Logic of Science. Lecture VIII: Forms of Induction and Hypothesis" Hypothesis is to be explained in a similar manner to induction. Hypothesis is quite a different thing from induction and is usually so considered although I have not found any definition... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/02/2013 Quote from "Harvard Lectures on the Logic of Science. Lecture X: Grounds of Induction" But the manner in which they have attained to certainty indicates a very different general strength of the three kinds of inference. [—] Thus we have in order of strength Deduction, Induction,... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/02/2013 Quote from "Harvard Lectures on the Logic of Science. Lecture XI" Hence the ground of deduction relates to symbols; that of induction to things; that of hypothesis to forms. [—] And the hypothetic inference attained certainty by having only a subjective ... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/02/2013 Quote from "Letters to F. A. Woods" I have always, since early in the sixties, recognized three different types of reasoning, viz: 1st, Deduction which depends on our confidence in our ability to analyze the meanings of the... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/02/2013 Quote from "Smithsonian Institution letters" Hypothesis is guessing, or if you please starting a question. A phenomenon is observed having something peculiar about it. Rumination leads me to see that if a... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/02/2013 Quote from "The Law of Mind" The three main classes of logical inference are Deduction, Induction, and Hypothesis. These correspond to three chief modes of action of the human soul. |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 30/01/2013 Quote from "Deduction, Induction, and Hypothesis" Suppose I enter a room and there find a number of bags, containing different kinds of beans. On the table there is a handful of white beans; and, after some searching, I find one of the bags... |