Quote from "Probable Inference"

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Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Analogy’ (pub. 05.01.13-09:53). 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-probable-inference.

Term:

Analogy

Quote:

Among probable inferences of mixed character, there are many forms of great importance. The most interesting, perhaps, is the argument from Analogy, in which, from a few instances of objects agreeing in a few well-defined respects, inference is made that another object, known to agree with the others in all but one of those respects, agrees in that respect also.

Source:

Peirce, C. S. (1902). Probable Inference. In J. M. Baldwin (Ed.), Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, Vol. II (pp. 353-355). London: Macmillan and Co.

References:

CP 2.787

Date of Quote:

1902

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-probable-inference