[PEIRCE-L] RE: [biosemiotics:8412] Re: Natural Propositions,

2015-04-23 Thread John Collier
Bob, The problem I see with that is it assumes that the classes on which the induction works are given already. This is also a problem with Bayesian methods. One of the problems in science is that the classes are often not obvious, and scientific work often involves reclassifications. In the

[PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:8412] Re: Natural Propositions,

2015-04-23 Thread Howard Pattee
At 11:55 AM 4/23/2015, Bob Logan wrote: Could not a process of induction not lead to abduction. That's very likely what happens. A current rough picture of the brain is the associative small-world network model. See also http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn5012#.VTl9-SFViko Howard