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A note on A ristotelian epagōgē
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This article is published in Phronesis.The article was published on 1981-01-01. It has received 4 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Ancient philosophy.read more
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Induction before Hume
TL;DR: This chapter presents the remarks about induction that are extracted from the writings of authors who were primarily concerned with other matters and for whom inductive reasoning was a matter of minor importance.
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The eco-cognitive model of abduction
TL;DR: It will be illustrated that through abduction, knowledge can be enhanced, even when abduction is not considered an inference to the best explanation in the classical sense of the expression, that is an inference necessarily characterized by an empirical evaluation phase, or an inductive phase, as Peirce called it.
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Freeing Aristotelian Epagōgē from Prior Analytics II 23
TL;DR: McAskey and McCaskey as discussed by the authors showed that the Prior Analytics II 23 is the most definitive treatment of induction and that the conventional reading of that chapter is not an accurate presentation of his view.
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The Process of Abstraction
TL;DR: Aristotle claims that the authors grasp the universal first principles of science by abstraction, which include universal concepts, axioms, and postulates that can be obtained by reading them off of the hierarchy, just as information can be read off of a map.