Dear Ken,
I think the deeper question is ³how did we come to be Œductive¹?². I have
written a little bit about this - see an extract below.
Hope this helps.
Keith
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"When the mind is bent towards an object of its attention, this thinking
is said to be intentional. That is, such thoughts illustrate that the mind
can be bent to such a relationship. If our minds could not be bent towards
things, and if things did not bend our attention, then we would be
disconnected and locked in mere self-thinking. We are bent towards the
world as the world is bent towards us. In Heidegger¹s terms, we outstand
and the world approaches us.
Things are ductible if they can be drawn or extruded; some materials are
ductile and others are not. The same applies to thoughts. Some can be
drawn from observations, some from speculations and some from the ether of
the imagination. Such drawings have, over time, acquired argumentative,
and, in some cases, logical authority. We readily embrace de-duction, we
tentatively accept in-duction, we dismiss re-duction and we scramble to
compensate for our wayward thinking by claiming the complexity of
ab-duction."
Russell, Keith. 2010. ³On Ducts and Design², included in Questions,
Hypotheses and Conjectures: Discussions on Projects by Early Stage and
Senior Design Researchers, Rosan Chow, Wolfgang Jonas, Gesche Joost (eds),
Design Research Network, NY, Bloomington: iUniverse, pp. 249-302.
On 20/02/2015 9:58 pm, "Ken Friedman" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>While I find this thread interesting, I¹d find it far more satisfying if
>someone who understands the evolution of abduction were to offer some
>serious comments and links to relevant literature. The question ³How did
>we come to be abductive?² has surely been subject to work in many fields.
>If the question is interesting enough to ask, it must surely be
>interesting enough to warrant some study of what has been done. I am not
>personally interested enough in the question of how abduction evolved to
>do that work ‹ I am interested in the question of abduction for other
>reasons, and I've drawn on some of what I do know to enter this thread.
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