Oh yes. Adopting a hypothesis as being suggested by facts is abduction.
But, Peirce thinks of two different modes to propose a hypothesis:
³Hypothesis is where we find some very curious circumstance, which would
be explained by the supposition that it was a case of a certain rule, and
thereupon adopt that supposition.
Or where we find that in certain respects two objects have strong
resemblance, and that they resemble one another strongly in other respects²
Seems like there are two kinds of abduction. One that reason backwards
from facts to the possible cause - let's say retroductive abduction (Facts
that suggest a theory and leads to a conclusion about what the case may
be). And another one that draws from a repertoire of known cases by
analogy - let's say productive abduction. This second mode of abduction is
pertinent in design, because it can suggest what may be in the future.
/Rolf
Den 2015-02-14 10.12 skrev CHUA Soo Meng Jude (GPL, PLS)
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>Yes Holmes was doing abduction, in those indtances where he was, as the
>scholastics would say, saving the appearances. meaning, when he was
>coming out with a possible explanation of how the present phenomenon was
>caused. typically an inference towards the cause of an effect relies on
>abduction in this sense. Unless the aergument proceeds by elminination,
>in which case Holmes is able to infer with deductive certainlty, given
>that the other causes are imposiible, that this particulat cause is the
>only cause we can admit. this is deductive.
>Jude
>National Institute of Education (Singapore) http://www.nie.edu.sg
>
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