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 > ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------