Peirce’s Abduction

Francesco Bellucci; Ahti-Veikko Juhani Pietarinen

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-10135-9_7

Peirce’s Abduction

Francesco Bellucci^*, Ahti-Veikko Juhani Pietarinen

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Religion and Philosophy

Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

Abstract

This paper presents the essentials of Peirce’s original theory of abductive reasoning. It explains the differences between the first phase of Peirce’s thinking on abduction, in which the logical framework is largely syllogistic, and the mature phase, in which abduction becomes the first step in the three-step process of scientific inquiry. The problems of the validity of abductive reasoning and that of the methodology of abductive reasoning are also briefly discussed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Handbook of Abductive Cognition
Editors	Lorenzo Magnani
Publisher	Springer Cham
Pages	7-20
Number of pages	14
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031101359
ISBN (Print)	9783031101342
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10135-9_7
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2023

Scopus Subject Areas

Engineering(all)
Arts and Humanities(all)
Mathematics(all)

User-Defined Keywords

Abduction
Deduction
Induction
Methodology
Peirce

Access to Document

10.1007/978-3-031-10135-9_7

Cite this

@inbook{5e8b3e882147483099cad7580efe7bd2,

title = "Peirce{\textquoteright}s Abduction",

abstract = "This paper presents the essentials of Peirce{\textquoteright}s original theory of abductive reasoning. It explains the differences between the first phase of Peirce{\textquoteright}s thinking on abduction, in which the logical framework is largely syllogistic, and the mature phase, in which abduction becomes the first step in the three-step process of scientific inquiry. The problems of the validity of abductive reasoning and that of the methodology of abductive reasoning are also briefly discussed.",

keywords = "Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Methodology, Peirce",

author = "Francesco Bellucci and Pietarinen, {Ahti-Veikko Juhani}",

note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023.",

year = "2023",

month = apr,

day = "1",

doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-10135-9_7",

language = "English",

isbn = "9783031101342",

pages = "7--20",

editor = "Lorenzo Magnani",

booktitle = "Handbook of Abductive Cognition",

publisher = "Springer Cham",

edition = "1st",

}

TY - CHAP

T1 - Peirce’s Abduction

AU - Bellucci, Francesco

AU - Pietarinen, Ahti-Veikko Juhani

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023.

PY - 2023/4/1

Y1 - 2023/4/1

N2 - This paper presents the essentials of Peirce’s original theory of abductive reasoning. It explains the differences between the first phase of Peirce’s thinking on abduction, in which the logical framework is largely syllogistic, and the mature phase, in which abduction becomes the first step in the three-step process of scientific inquiry. The problems of the validity of abductive reasoning and that of the methodology of abductive reasoning are also briefly discussed.

AB - This paper presents the essentials of Peirce’s original theory of abductive reasoning. It explains the differences between the first phase of Peirce’s thinking on abduction, in which the logical framework is largely syllogistic, and the mature phase, in which abduction becomes the first step in the three-step process of scientific inquiry. The problems of the validity of abductive reasoning and that of the methodology of abductive reasoning are also briefly discussed.

KW - Abduction

KW - Deduction

KW - Induction

KW - Methodology

KW - Peirce

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85173394350&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-10135-9_7

DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-10135-9_7

M3 - Chapter

SN - 9783031101342

SP - 7

EP - 20

BT - Handbook of Abductive Cognition

A2 - Magnani, Lorenzo

PB - Springer Cham

ER -

Peirce’s Abduction

Abstract

Scopus Subject Areas

User-Defined Keywords

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this