Meaning and Abduction as Process-Structure: A Diagram of Reasoning

This paper is informed by Charles Sanders Peirce’s philosophy as semiotics or the doctrine of signs. The paper’s purpose is to explore Peirce’s category of abduction as not being limited to the inference to the best explanation. In the context of the logic of discovery, abduction is posited as a nec...

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Main Author: Inna Semetsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cosmos and History Publishing Co-op. 2009-11-01
Series:Cosmos and History : the Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy
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Online Access:http://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/159