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Quote from ‘Carnegie Institution Correspondence’

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But in my paper on probable inference in the Johns Hopkins “Studies in Logic”, owing to the excessive weight I at that time placed on formalistic considerations, I fell into the error of attaching a name the synonym I then used for Abduction, to a probable inference which I correctly described, forgetting that according to my own earlier and correct account of it, abduction is not of the number of probable inferences. It is singular that I should have done that, when in the very same paper I mention the existence of the mode of inference which is true abduction. Thus, the only error that paper contains is the designation as abduction of a mode of induction somewhat resembling abduction, which may properly be called abductive induction.

Date: 
1902
References: 
HP 2:1031-1032
Citation: 
‘Abduction’ (pub. 02.01.13-16:34). 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-carnegie-institution-correspondence.
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Jan 02, 2013, 16:34 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jan 07, 2014, 01:05 by Commens Admin