[Inquiry] Re: Examples Of Inquiry -- Discussion

[Jon Awbrey]

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EOI.  Discussion Note 15

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JA = Jon Awbrey
TG = Tom Gollier

Re: EOI.DIS 12.  http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2004-November/001772.html
As Amended At:   http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2004-November/001773.html
In: EOI.DIS.     http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2004-November/thread.html#1707

TG: Sorry, I'm reading your messages backwards again.
    Maybe that's why they make sense to me?  Anyway:

TG: - Cool air is an indication of rain

JA: For this to be a Rule in the deductive sense, you would have to
    delete the expletive fudge factor "indication" and state simply that
    A => B, in other words, "If the Air is cooler then it's Bound to rain".

TG: allows our hero to deduce rain may very well be in the offing.

JA: But the deductive inference is apodictic, bound, certain,
    demonstrative, exact, and does not allow of the modality
    that you admit as "may very well be" in your conclusion.

TG: What a narrow, formalistic view of deduction.  But yet our pace quickens, no?
    Well actually not mine in these situations, because I also believe in the old
    gambling maxim that scared money never wins, so if I quicken my pace, I'm going
    to get rained on for sure.  But they sure seem like deductions -- applications
    of a case to a rule so as to produce a predicted fact/result -- to me.

Tom,

I see this another way.  Logic is the "theory of inquiry" (TOI).  Catchy title, no?
And deduction is the straight and narrow arrow (=>=> = =>).  It would be myopic of
me if I identified deduction with the whole of inquiry, the whole of reasoning,
but I do not, there is the whole world of abductive and inductive reasoning,
at the very least, else wise.  Abductive and inductive inference play and
work by their own rules, which job is ours to articulate as best we can.

And so it goes ...

Jon Awbrey

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