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Term: 
Hypothesis [as a form of reasoning]
Quote: 

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 character.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1865). Harvard Lectures on the Logic of Science. Lecture XI. MS [W] 107; MS [R] 348.
References: 
W 1:290
Date of Quote: 
1865
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