12,080
edits
Changes
Directory:Jon Awbrey/Papers/Functional Logic : Inquiry and Analogy (view source)
Revision as of 15:02, 21 June 2013
, 15:02, 21 June 2013→1.7. Dewey's “Sign of Rain” : An Example of Inquiry: fix typo
|}
|}
# Abduction. The first, faltering step into the cycle of inquiry is taken through the flexion of abductive reasoning. The fact AC, the coolness of the air in the pedestrian's current situation, brings into play from his wordly experience (or from other kinds of background knowledge) the rule AB, that a chill in the air is a feature of situations that betoken rain. This fact and this rule, working in tandem, precipitate a plausible explanation for the observed phenomena. The hiker abduces the case BC, that bodes for rain in the current situation.
# Abduction. The first, faltering step into the cycle of inquiry is taken through the flexion of abductive reasoning. The fact AC, the coolness of the air in the pedestrian's current situation, brings into play from his worldly experience (or from other kinds of background knowledge) the rule AB, that a chill in the air is a feature of situations that betoken rain. This fact and this rule, working in tandem, precipitate a plausible explanation for the observed phenomena. The hiker abduces the case BC, that bodes for rain in the current situation.
# Deduction. …
# Deduction. …
# Induction. …
# Induction. …