Abduction

Keyword: Abduction


Article in Journal | Posted 28/07/2014
Rhee, Jerry, Mohammad Nejad, Talisa, Comets, Olivier, Flannery, Sean, Gulsoy, Emine B., Iannaccone, Philip, Foster, Craig (2014). Promoting convergence: the phi spiral in abduction of mouse corneal behaviors
Why do mouse corneal epithelial cells display spiraling patterns? We want to provide an explanation for this curious phenomenon by applying an idealized problem solving process. Specifically, we...
Dictionary Entry | Posted 11/06/2014
Quote from "Lowell Lectures on Some Topics of Logic Bearing on Questions Now Vexed. Eighth Lecture, Abduction"

For abduction commits us to nothing. It merely causes a hypothesis to be set down upon our docket of cases to be tried.

I shall be asked, Do you really mean to say that we ought not to...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 11/06/2014
Quote from "Prolegomena to an Apology for Pragmaticism"

Abduction, in the sense I give the word, is any reasoning of a large class of which the provisional adoption of an explanatory hypothesis is the type. But it includes...

News | Posted 22/01/2014
Helsinki Metaphysical Club: 'Abduction and Ampliative Inference'

Amanda Hicks (SUNY Buffalo): “Abduction and Ampliative Inference”

Article in Journal | Posted 20/08/2013
Paavola, Sami (2004). Abduction as a logic and methodology of discovery: The importance of strategies
There are various "classical" arguments against abduction as a logic of discovery, especially that 1) abduction is too weak a mode of inference to be of any use, and 2) in basic formulation...
Article in Journal | Posted 20/08/2013
Paavola, Sami (2011). Diagrams, Iconicity, and Abductive Discovery
In this article the role of abductive reasoning within Peirce’s diagrammatic reasoning is discussed. Both abduction and diagrammatic reasoning bring in elements of discovery but it is not clear if...
Monograph | Posted 27/06/2013
Hookway, Christopher (2012). The Pragmatic Maxim: Essays on Peirce and Pragmatism

Christopher Hookway presents a series of essays on the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1913), the 'founder of pragmatism' and one of the most important and original American...

Manuscript | Posted 03/02/2013
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lowell Lectures on Some Topics of Logic Bearing on Questions Now Vexed. C. S. Peirce's Lowell lnstitute Lectures. 1903, Seventh Lecture. Introduction Vol. I. MS [R] 473

From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, G-1903-2a, pp. 2-92.
Published, in part, as 7.110-130 (pp. 36-84). Omitted from publication: a discussion of deduction,...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 04/01/2013
Quote from "PAP [ed.]"

Let us now consider non-necessary reasoning. This divides itself, according to the different ways in which it may be valid, into three classes: probable deduction; experimental reasoning, which I...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 04/01/2013
Quote from "Letter draft to Mario Calderoni"

… there are but three elementary kinds of reasoning. The first, which I call abduction (on the theory, the doubtful theory, I confess, that the meaning of the XXVth chapter of the second...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 04/01/2013
Quote from "Syllabus: Syllabus of a course of Lectures at the Lowell Institute beginning 1903, Nov. 23. On Some Topics of Logic"

The whole operation of reasoning begins with Abduction, which is now to be descibed. Its occasion is a surprise. That is, some belief, active or passive,...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 04/01/2013
Quote from "Syllabus: Nomenclature and Division of Triadic Relations, as far as they are determined"

An Abduction is a method of forming a general prediction without any positive assurance that it will succeed either in the special case or usually, its...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 04/01/2013
Quote from "Lowell Lectures on Some Topics of Logic Bearing on Questions Now Vexed. Eighth Lecture, Abduction"

If we are to give the names of Deduction, Induction, and Abduction to the three grand classes of inference, then Deduction must include every attempt at mathematical demonstration, whether it...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 04/01/2013
Quote from "Lowell Lectures on Some Topics of Logic Bearing on Questions Now Vexed. Eighth Lecture, Abduction"

But even then the likelihood would not weigh with me directly, as such, but because it would become a factor in what really is in all cases the leading consideration in Abduction, which is the...

Manuscript | Posted 04/01/2013
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lowell Lectures on Some Topics of Logic Bearing on Questions Now Vexed. Eighth Lecture, Abduction. MS [R] 475

From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, G-1903-2a, pp. 2-92 (pagination is somewhat irregular but the text is continuous).
Volume I. Published, in part, as 5.590-...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 03/01/2013
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture V, a deleted passage"

Now, I said, Abduction, or the suggestion of an explanatory theory, is inference through an Icon, and is thus connected with Firstness; Induction, or trying how...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 03/01/2013
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture V"

… three radically different kinds of arguments which I signalized in 1867 and which had been recognized by the logicians of the eighteenth century, although [those] logicians quite pardonably...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 03/01/2013
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture V"

Among these opinions which I have constantly maintained is this, that while Abductive and Inductive reasoning are utterly irreducible, either to the other or to Deduction, or Deduction to either...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 03/01/2013
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture VI"

Concerning the validity of Abductive inference, there is little to be said, although that little is pertinent to the problem we have in hand.

Abduction is the...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 03/01/2013
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture VII"

The third cotary proposition is that abductive inference shades into perceptual judgment without any sharp line of demarcation between them; or, in other words, our first premisses, the perceptual...

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