Quote from "Review of William James's "The Principles of Psychology" (Part 2)"

Commens

Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Inference’ (pub. 26.07.15-20:14). 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-review-william-jamess-principles-psychology-part-2.

Term:

Inference

Quote:

…unconscious inference differs essentially from inference in the narrow sense, all our control over which depends upon this, that it involves a conscious, though it may be an indistinct, reference to a genus of arguments.

Source:

Peirce, C. S. (1891). Review of William James's "The Principles of Psychology". The Nation, 53, 15, 32-33.

References:

CN 1:107; W 8:235; CP 8.63

Date of Quote:

1891

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-review-william-jamess-principles-psychology-part-2