Quote from "Lowell Lectures on The Logic of Science; or Induction and Hypothesis: Lecture V"

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‘Hypothesis [as a form of reasoning]’ (pub. 02.02.13-19:18). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-lowell-lectures-logic-science-or-induction-and-hypothesis-lecture-v.

Term:

Hypothesis [as a form of reasoning]

Quote:

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 reasoning. Induction and Hypothesis. [—] Hypothesis alone affords us any knowledge of causes and forces, and enables us to see the why of things. [—] So that we have

           Deduction
           Induction
and    Hypothesis

as three coördinate classes of reasoning.

Source:

Peirce, C. S. (1866). Lowell Lectures on The Logic of Science; or Induction and Hypothesis: Lecture V. MS [R] 343.

References:

W 1:428

Date of Quote:

1866

URL:

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