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<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>

<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>

<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. (Peirce 1865, "Harvard Lecture 10.  Grounds of Induction", CE 1, 279–280).</p>

<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>

 

<p>(Peirce 1865, Harvard Lecture 10 : Grounds of Induction, CE 1, 279&ndash;280).</p>

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