Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism¶
Peirce, C. S. (1903). Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism. The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings, Volume 2 (1893–1913), 2(1893–1913), 1893-1913.
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Primes¶
- Abductive Reasoning
- The pattern was first isolated as a distinct mode of inference by Peirce in his 1903 Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism, where he treated it as the only one of the three classical inference forms that introduces a genuinely new idea rather than rearranging existing content.
This sourceIsolates abduction (retroduction) as a distinct mode of inference and states that abduction 'is the only logical operation which introduces any new idea,' whereas deduction merely evolves consequences and induction only determines a value — the source for the claim that abduction alone among the three classical forms introduces genuinely new content.
- The pattern was first isolated as a distinct mode of inference by Peirce in his 1903 Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism, where he treated it as the only one of the three classical inference forms that introduces a genuinely new idea rather than rearranging existing content.
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