Patterns of Discovery¶
Hanson, N. R. (1958). Patterns of Discovery: An Inquiry into the Conceptual Foundations of Science. Cambridge University Press.
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- Abductive Reasoning
- It separates two states (a puzzling unexplained observation and a tentatively explained observation) and names the work required to cross between them — work done not by truth-preserving derivation or frequency projection but by comparative scoring of how well each candidate hypothesis would make the observation expected, the schema Hanson (1958) defended as a "logic of discovery" distinct from the deductive logic of justification.
This sourceDefends a Peircean retroductive/abductive schema — surprising observation, candidate hypotheses, explanatory ranking — as a 'logic of discovery' distinct from the hypothetico-deductive logic of justification.
- It separates two states (a puzzling unexplained observation and a tentatively explained observation) and names the work required to cross between them — work done not by truth-preserving derivation or frequency projection but by comparative scoring of how well each candidate hypothesis would make the observation expected, the schema Hanson (1958) defended as a "logic of discovery" distinct from the deductive logic of justification.
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