Location
University of Windsor
Document Type
Paper
Keywords
Growth, illation, logic, semiosis, semiological, Peirce, abduction, deduction, induction, inference, evolve
Start Date
18-5-2011 9:00 AM
End Date
21-5-2011 5:00 PM
Abstract
For Peirce, logic is essentially illative, a relation of inferential growth. It follows that inference and argumentation are essentially ecstatic, an asymmetrical, ampliative movement from antecedent to consequent. It also follows that logic is inherently inductive. While deduction remains an essential and irreplaceable aspect of logic, it should be seen as a more abstract expression of the illative, semiological essence of inference as such.
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Inference as growth: Peirce’s ecstatic logic of illation
University of Windsor
For Peirce, logic is essentially illative, a relation of inferential growth. It follows that inference and argumentation are essentially ecstatic, an asymmetrical, ampliative movement from antecedent to consequent. It also follows that logic is inherently inductive. While deduction remains an essential and irreplaceable aspect of logic, it should be seen as a more abstract expression of the illative, semiological essence of inference as such.
