The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Minute Logic: Chapter I. Intended Characters of this Treatise’

Quote: 

Arguments are of three kinds, Deduction, Induction, and what I call Abduction [—] If the conclusion is accepted because, having been hypothetically propounded as a hypothesis, it predicted that experiments would yield results which they have thereupon been found to yield, the argument is Inductive.

Date: 
1902
References: 
MS [R] 425:120-121
Editorial Annotations: 

From early/discarded draft

Citation: 
‘Induction’ (pub. 09.03.18-12:05). 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-minute-logic-chapter-i-intended-characters-treatise-37.
Posted: 
Mar 09, 2018, 12:05 by Mats Bergman