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| ====4.3.3. Hybrid Types of Inference==== | | ====4.3.3. Hybrid Types of Inference==== |
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| + | In the normal course of inquiry, the fundamental types of inference proceed in the order: abduction, deduction, induction. However, the same building blocks can be assembled in other ways to yield different kinds of complex inferences. Of particular importance for our purposes, reasoning by analogy can be analyzed as a combination of induction and deduction, in other words, as the abstraction and application of a rule. Because a complicated pattern of analogical inference will be used in our example of a complete inquiry, it will help to prepare the ground if we first stop to consider an example of analogy in its simplest form. |
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| =====4.3.3.1. Analogy===== | | =====4.3.3.1. Analogy===== |