Rafe Champion wrote: > > Thanks to Terry for the mention of bold Popperian conjectures, > I was wondering what is the difference between an abduction > and a conjecture.
Rafe, I think they are basically the same thing in and of themselves, but the term "abduction" refers to a particular tradition and genre of theories regarding their genesis and logical rationale, harking back to Aristotle's "apagoge" as augmented by Peirce's analysis of inquiry. Regards, Jon -- academia: http://independent.academia.edu/JonAwbrey inquiry list: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/ mwb: http://www.mywikibiz.com/Directory:Jon_Awbrey oeiswiki: http://www.oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey word press blog 1: http://jonawbrey.wordpress.com/ word press blog 2: http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the PEIRCE-L listserv. To remove yourself from this list, send a message to lists...@listserv.iupui.edu with the line "SIGNOFF PEIRCE-L" in the body of the message. To post a message to the list, send it to PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
