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Type: 
Manuscript
Author: 
Peirce, Charles Sanders
Title: 
Harvard Lectures on the Logic of Science. Lecture VIII: Forms of Induction and Hypothesis
Manuscript Id: 
MS [W] 105; MS [R] 346, 758
Year: 
1865
Abstract / Description: 

From the Robin Catalogue:
346. Lecture VIII. Forms of Induction and Hypothesis (Forms)
A. MS., n.p., [1864-65], pp. 1-14 (double pages).
The attempts to define “logic” suffer from an admixture of logic, anthropology, and psychology. Analysis of the triad of thing, representation, and form. The three kinds of representations: signs, copies, symbols. Conditions to which symbols are subject. The relationship between the syllogism and scientific inference. The proper form of induction. Induction and hypothesis distinguished. Induction increases the extension of subject; hypothesis increases the comprehension of predicate. Moreover, induction discovers a law which is a prohibition; hypothesis discovers a law which is an imposition.

  1. (Aristotle 9, Aristotle 10)
    A. MS., n.p., n.d., 4 pp., incomplete.
    A lecture on inference, with all elementary inferences divided into three classes. Is the division into three classes natural?
  2. (B)
    A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 1-3.
    On the modes of necessary inference.

Published as W 1:256-271 (a MS number by Writings: 105)

Language: 
English