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====Note 7. Peirce (CE 1, 279&ndash;280)====

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| We are now in a condition to discuss the question

<p>We are now in a condition to discuss the question of the grounds of scientific inference.  This problem naturally divides itself into parts:</p>

| of the grounds of scientific inference.  This

 

| problem naturally divides itself into parts:

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|   1st To state and prove the principles

| To state and prove the principles upon which the possibility in general of each kind of inference depends,

|        upon which the possibility in general

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|        of each kind of inference depends,

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| To state and prove the rules for making inferences in particular cases.

|   2nd To state and prove the rules

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|        for making inferences

 

|        in particular cases.

<p>The first point I shall discuss in the remainder of this lecture; the second I shall scarcely be able to touch upon in these lectures.</p>

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| The first point I shall discuss in the remainder of this lecture;

<p>Inference in general obviously supposes symbolization;  and all symbolization is inference.  For every symbol as we have seen contains information.  And in the last lecture we saw that all kinds of information involve inference.  Inference, then, is symbolization. They are the same notions.  Now we have already analyzed the notion of a ''symbol'', and we have found that it depends upon the possibility of representations acquiring a nature, that is to say an immediate representative power.  This principle is therefore the ground of inference in general.</p>

| the second I shall scarcely be able to touch upon in these lectures.

 

<p>C.S. Peirce, ''Chronological Edition'', CE 1, 279&ndash;280</p>

| Inference in general obviously supposes symbolization;  and

 

| all symbolization is inference.  For every symbol as we have seen

<p>Charles Sanders Peirce, "Harvard Lectures ''On the Logic of Science''" (1865), ''Writings of Charles S. Peirce : A Chronological Edition, Volume 1, 1857&ndash;1866'', Peirce Edition Project, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1982.</p>

| contains information.  And in the last lecture we saw that all kinds

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| of information involve inference.  Inference, then, is symbolization.

| They are the same notions.  Now we have already analyzed the notion

| of a 'symbol', and we have found that it depends upon the possibility

| of representations acquiring a nature, that is to say an immediate

| representative power.  This principle is therefore the ground

| of inference in general.

| C.S. Peirce, 'Chronological Edition', CE 1, pp. 279-280.

| Charles Sanders Peirce, "Harvard Lectures 'On the Logic of Science'", (1865),

|'Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Volume 1, 1857-1866',

| Peirce Edition Project, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1982.

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