Doug -
I think you are reaching here...
I've always said that. Ask anybody, they'll tell you. They'll say,
that Roberts guy is /*always*/ saying,/ "it is unfortunate that
enthymeme resolution is treated as a kind of presumptive meaning
determination". /
It fact, it's been pointed out to that I say this so often, it's
almost become my meme. So I think I'll stop saying it.
...As in reaching around behind yourself and grabbing your "abduction"
in both hands...
I loved this excerpt from the Wikipedia link to "Abductive Reasoning":
Abduction: The term was first introduced by the American
philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce> (1839--1914)
as "guessing".
And of course, an enthymeme is:
an informally stated syllogism
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllogism> (a three-part deductive
argument <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_argument>) with an
unstated assumption that must be true for the premises to lead to
the conclusion part of the argument is missing because it is assumed.
and... to elaborate further:
Aristotle <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle>, who defined it
in his /Rhetoric
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric_%28Aristotle%29>/, an
enthymeme was a "rhetorical syllogism
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllogism>" which was based on
probable opinions, thus distinguishing it from a scientific
syllogism. It is aimed at persuasion
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persuasion> while scientific syllogism
is aimed at demonstration <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apodicticity>
*I* do find unpacking Glen's obscure linguistic constructs both
informative and entertaining. I think you'll be seeing a lot more
references to "/abduction/" on the list now, if not the /enthymemetic
conjugation of multipart syllogisms/ within the context of the larger
/semantic tableaux/.
(+1 for Glen's taglines)
- Steve
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