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‘Induction’ (pub. 03.02.13-18:21). 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-natural-classification-arguments-2.
Term: 
Induction
Quote: 

Induction may, therefore, be defined as argument which assumes that a whole collection, from which a number of instances have been taken at random, has all the common characters of those instances …

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1867). On the Natural Classification of Arguments. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 7, 261-287.
References: 
CP 2.515
Date of Quote: 
1867
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