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If I make the mark of deduction the fact that it reduces the number of terms, as it moves from the grounds to the end of an argument, then I am due to devise a name for the process that augments the number of terms, and thus prepares the grounds for any account of experience.

If I make the mark of deduction the fact that it reduces the number of terms, as it moves from the grounds to the end of an argument, then I am due to devise a name for the process that augments the number of terms, and thus prepares the grounds for any account of experience.

What name hints at the many ways that signs arise in regard to things?  What name covers the manifest ways that a map takes over its territory?  What name fits this naming of names, these proceedings that inaugurate a sign in the first place, that duly install it on the office of a term?  What name suits all the actions of addition, annexation, incursion, and invention that instigate the initial bearing of signs on an object domain? In the interests of a ''maximal analytic precision'', it is fitting that I should try to sharpen this notion to the point where it applies purely to a simple act, that of entering a new term on the lists, in effect, of enlisting a new term to the ongoing account of experience.  Thus, let me style this process as ''adduction'' or ''production'', in spite of the fact that the aim of precision is partially blunted by the circumstance that these words have well-worn uses in other contexts.  In this way, I can isolate to some degree the singular step of adding a term, leaving it to a later point to distinguish the role that it plays in an argument.

What name hints at the many ways that signs arise in regard to things?  What name covers the manifest ways that a map takes over its territory?  What name fits this naming of names, these proceedings that inaugurate a sign in the first place, that duly install it on the office of a term?  What name suits all the actions of addition, annexation, incursion, and invention that instigate the initial bearing of signs on an object domain?

 

In the interests of a ''maximal analytic precision'' (MAP), it is fitting that I should try to sharpen this notion to the point where it applies purely to a simple act, that of entering a new term on the lists, in effect, of enlisting a new term to the ongoing account of experience.  Thus, let me style this process as ''adduction'' or ''production'', in spite of the fact that the aim of precision is partially blunted by the circumstance that these words have well-worn uses in other contexts.  In this way, I can isolate to some degree the singular step of adding a term, leaving it to a later point to distinguish the role that it plays in an argument.

As it stands, the words ''adduction'' and ''production'' could apply to the arbitrary addition of terms to a discussion, whether or not these terms participate in valid forms of argument or contribute to their mediation.  Although there are a number of auxiliary terms, like ''factorization'', ''mediation'', or ''resolution'', that can help to pin down these meanings, it is also useful to have a word that can convey the exact sense meant.  Therefore, I coin the term ''obduction'' to suggest the type of reasoning process that is opposite or converse to deduction and that introduces a middle term ''in the way'' as it passes from a subject to a predicate.

As it stands, the words ''adduction'' and ''production'' could apply to the arbitrary addition of terms to a discussion, whether or not these terms participate in valid forms of argument or contribute to their mediation.  Although there are a number of auxiliary terms, like ''factorization'', ''mediation'', or ''resolution'', that can help to pin down these meanings, it is also useful to have a word that can convey the exact sense meant.  Therefore, I coin the term ''obduction'' to suggest the type of reasoning process that is opposite or converse to deduction and that introduces a middle term ''in the way'' as it passes from a subject to a predicate.