Presumption [as a form of reasoning]
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/01/2013 Quote from "Grand Logic 1893: Division II. Methodology. Chapter XV. Breadth and Depth" An imaginary increase of information is an assumption or supposition; but the former word is preferable. An increase of information by induction, hypothesis, or analogy, is a... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/01/2013 Quote from "Presumption" Presumption. In logic: a more or less reasonable hypothesis, supported, it may be, by circumstances amounting all but to proof, or, it may be, all but ... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/01/2013 Quote from "Validity" In the case of hypotheses adopted presumptively on probation, one of the very elements of their strength lies in the absence of any other hypothesis; so that the above definition of strength... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/01/2013 Quote from "Reasoning" Reasoning is of three elementary kinds; but mixed reasonings are more common. These three kinds are induction, deduction, and presumption (for which the present writer... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/01/2013 Quote from "Reasoning" Presumption, or, more precisely, abduction (which the present writer believes to have been what Aristotle’s twenty-fifth chapter of the second Prior Analytics... |