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Dear Carlos,
Abduction is more than analogy, I think. It is a good idea to step back
and find out what has been thought and written about abduction already,
before making a statement. I think again.

Best wishes
Rolf

Carlos Pires wrote:

>Dear all,
>
>I will venture to suggest that "abduction" is just a name for the sleight
>of hand of analogy.
>I think Dr. Salu is absolutely spot-on: this is a Peirce-ing silver
>bullet that can hit any target but, in the end, explains nothing.
>Sometimes, people need to step back from what I lusually call the
>"canonic interpretation of the obligatory references" and think again.
>
>Best regards,
>
>==================================
>Carlos Pires
>
>
>
>Rolf Johansson wrote:
>
>> Dear Ken,
>> Yes "abduction is ... Nothing but guessing" (CP 7.219). "The abductive
>> suggestion comes to us like a flash. It is an act of insight, although
>>of
>> extremely fallible insight" (CP 5.181). /First mentioned "insight"
>>should
>> be in italics as in the original text, by my mail cannot manage that./
>> "Nature is a far vaster and less clearly arranged repertory of facts
>>than
>> a census report; and if men had not come to it with special aptitudes
>>for
>> guessing right, it may well be doubted whether in the ten or twenty
>> thousand years that they may have existed their greatest mind would have
>> attained the amount of knowledge which is actually possessed by the
>>lowest
>> idiot" (CP 2.753). Peirce wrote. And good guessing requires contextual
>> knowledge, no doubt about that. But for certainty, we need deductive
>> reasoning to test our explanatory hypotheses - our results from
>>abduction.
>> 
>> Yours,
>> Rolf
>


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