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==Inquiry in the pragmatic paradigm==

In the pragmatic philosophies of [[Charles Sanders Peirce]], [[William James]], [[John Dewey]], and others, inquiry is closely associated with the [[normative science]] of [[logic]].  In its inception, the pragmatic model or theory of inquiry was extracted by Peirce from its raw materials in classical logic, with a little bit of help from [[Kant]], and refined in parallel with the early development of symbolic logic by [[Boole]], [[De Morgan]], and Peirce himself to address problems about the nature and conduct of scientific reasoning.  Borrowing a brace of concepts from [[Aristotle]], Peirce examined three fundamental modes of reasoning that play a role in inquiry, commonly known as [[abductive reasoning|abductive]], [[deductive reasoning|deductive]], and [[inductive reasoning|inductive]] [[inference]].

In rough terms, ''[[abductive reasoning|abduction]]'' is what we use to generate a likely [[hypothesis]] or an initial [[diagnosis]] in response to a phenomenon of interest or a problem of concern, while ''[[deductive reasoning|deduction]]'' is used to clarify, to derive, and to explicate the relevant consequences of the selected hypothesis, and ''[[inductive reasoning|induction]]'' is used to test the sum of the predictions against the sum of the data.  It needs to be observed that the classical and pragmatic treatments of the types of reasoning, dividing the generic territory of inference as they do into three special parts, arrive at a different characterization of the environs of reason than do those accounts that count only two.

These three processes typically operate in a cyclic fashion, systematically operating to reduce the uncertainties and the difficulties that initiated the inquiry in question, and in this way, to the extent that inquiry is successful, leading to an increase in knowledge or in skills.

In the pragmatic way of thinking everything has a purpose, and the purpose of each thing is the first thing we should try to note about it.  The purpose of inquiry is to reduce doubt and lead to a state of belief, which a person in that state will usually call ''[[knowledge]]'' or ''[[certainty]]''.  As they contribute to the end of inquiry, we should appreciate that the three kinds of inference describe a cycle that can be understood only as a whole, and none of the three makes complete sense in isolation from the others.  For instance, the purpose of abduction is to generate guesses of a kind that deduction can explicate and that induction can evaluate.  This places a mild but meaningful constraint on the production of hypotheses, since it is not just any wild guess at explanation that submits itself to reason and bows out when defeated in a match with reality.  In a similar fashion, each of the other types of inference realizes its purpose only in accord  with its proper role in the whole cycle of inquiry.  No matter how much it may be necessary to study these processes in abstraction from each other, the integrity of inquiry places strong limitations on the effective [[modularity]] of its principal components.

===Art and science of inquiry===

For our present purposes, the first feature to note in distinguishing the three principal modes of reasoning from each other is whether each of them is exact or approximate in character.  In this light, deduction is the only one of the three types of reasoning that can be made exact, in essence, always deriving true conclusions from true premisses, while abduction and induction are unavoidably approximate in their modes of operation, involving elements of fallible judgment in practice and inescapable error in their application.

The reason for this is that deduction, in the ideal limit, can be rendered a purely internal process of the reasoning agent, while the other two modes of reasoning essentially demand a constant interaction with the outside world, a source of phenomena and problems that will no doubt continue to exceed the capacities of any finite resource, human or machine, to master.  Situated in this larger reality, approximations can be judged appropriate only in relation to their context of use and can be judged fitting only with regard to a purpose in view.

A parallel distinction that is often made in this connection is to call deduction a ''[[demonstrative]]'' form of inference, while abduction and induction are classed as ''[[non-demonstrative]]'' forms of reasoning.  Strictly speaking, the latter two modes of reasoning are not properly called inferences at all.  They are more like controlled associations of words or ideas that just happen to be successful often enough to be preserved as useful heuristic strategies in the repertoire of the agent. But [[non-demonstrative]] ways of thinking are inherently subject to error, and must be constantly checked out and corrected as needed in practice.

In classical terminology, forms of judgment that require attention to the context and the purpose of the judgment are said to involve an element of 'art', in a sense that is judged to distinguish them from 'science', and in their renderings as expressive judgments to implicate arbiters in styles of [[rhetoric]], as contrasted with [[logic]].

In a figurative sense, this means that only deductive logic can be reduced to an exact theoretical science, while the practice of any empirical science will always remain to some degree an art.

===Zeroth order inquiry===

Many aspects of inquiry can be recognized and usefully studied in very basic logical settings, even simpler than the level of [[syllogism]], for example, in the realm of reasoning that is variously known as ''[[boolean algebra]]'', ''[[propositional logic|propositional calculus]]'', ''[[sentential calculus]]'', or ''[[zeroth-order logic]]''.  By way of approaching the learning curve on the gentlest availing slope, we may well begin at the level of ''[[zeroth-order inquiry]]'', in effect, taking the syllogistic approach to inquiry only so far as the propositional or sentential aspects of the associated reasoning processes are concerned.  One of the bonuses of doing this in the context of Peirce's logical work is that it provides us with doubly instructive exercises in the use of his [[logical graph]]s, taken at the level of his so-called '[[alpha graph]]s'.

In the case of propositional calculus or sentential logic, deduction comes down to applications of the [[transitive law]] for conditional implications and the approximate forms of inference hang on the properties that derive from these.  In describing the various types of inference I will employ a few old terms of art from classical logic that are still of use in treating these kinds of simple problems in reasoning.

: '''Deduction''' takes a Case, the [[minor premiss]] <math>X \Rightarrow Y</math>
: and combines it with a Rule,the [[major premiss]] <math>Y \Rightarrow Z</math>
: to arrive at a Fact, the demonstrative [[conclusion]] <math>X \Rightarrow Z.</math>

: '''Induction''' takes a Case of the form <math>X \Rightarrow Y</math>
: and matches it with a Fact of the form <math>X \Rightarrow Z</math>
: to infer a Rule of the form <math>Y \Rightarrow Z.</math>

: '''Abduction''' takes a Fact of the form <math>X \Rightarrow Z</math>
: and matches it with a Rule of the form <math>Y \Rightarrow Z</math>
: to infer a Case of the form <math>X \Rightarrow Y.</math>

For ease of reference, Figure 1 and the Legend beneath it summarize the classical terminology for the three types of inference and the relationships among them.

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| Deduction takes a Case of the form X => Y,      |
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| then adverts to a Fact of the form X => Z.      |
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| Induction takes a Case of the form X => Y,      |
| matches it with a Fact of the form X => Z,      |
| then adverts to a Rule of the form Y => Z.      |
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| Abduction takes a Fact of the form X => Z,      |
| matches it with a Rule of the form Y => Z,      |
| then adverts to a Case of the form X => Y.      |
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| Even more succinctly:                           |
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| Premiss:     Fact       Rule       Case         |
| Premiss:     Rule       Case       Fact         |
| Outcome:     Case       Fact       Rule         |
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Figure 1.  Elementary Structure and Terminology
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In its original usage a statement of Fact has to do with a deed done or a record made, that is, a type of event that is openly observable and not riddled with speculation as to its very occurrence.  In contrast, a statement of Case may refer to a hidden or a hypothetical cause, that is, a type of event that is not immediately observable to all concerned. Obviously, the distinction is a rough one and the question of which mode applies can depend on the points of view that different observers adopt over time.  Finally, a statement of a Rule is called that because it states a regularity or a regulation that governs a whole class of situations, and not because of its syntactic form.  So far in this discussion, all three types of constraint are expressed in the form of conditional propositions, but this is not a fixed requirement. In practice, these modes of statement are distinguished by the roles that they play within an argument, not by their style of expression.  When the time comes to branch out from the syllogistic framework, we will find that propositional constraints can be discovered and represented in arbitrary syntactic forms.

===Kinds of inference===

The three kinds of inference that Peirce would come to refer to as ''abductive'', ''deductive'', and ''inductive'' inference he gives his earliest systematic treatment in two series of lectures on the logic of science:  the [[Harvard University]] Lectures of 1865 and the [[Lowell Institute]] Lectures of 1866.  There he sums up the characters of the three kinds of reasoning in the following terms:

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<p>We have then three different kinds of inference:</p>

<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Deduction or inference ''[[a priori and a posteriori (philosophy)|à priori]]'',</p>

<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Induction or inference ''[[à particularis]]'', and</p>

<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Hypothesis or inference ''[[à posteriori]]''.</p>

<p>(Peirce, "On the Logic of Science" (1865), CE 1, 267).</p>
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Early in the first series of lectures Peirce gives a very revealing illustration of how he then thinks of the natures, operations, and relationships of this trio of inference types: 

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<p> If I reason that certain conduct is wise
<br>because it has a character which belongs
<br>''only'' to wise things, I reason ''à priori''.</p>

<p> If I think it is wise because it once turned out
<br>to be wise, that is, if I infer that it is wise on
<br>this occasion because it was wise on that occasion,
<br>I reason inductively [''à particularis''].</p>

<p> But if I think it is wise because a wise man does it,
<br>I then make the pure hypothesis that he does it
<br>because he is wise, and I reason ''à posteriori''.</p>

<p>(Peirce, "On the Logic of Science" (1865), CE 1, 180).</p>
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We may begin the analysis of Peirce's example by making the following assignments of letters to the qualitative attributes mentioned in it: 

:* A  =  'Wisdom',
:* B  =  'a certain character',
:* C  =  'a certain conduct',
:* D  =  'done by a wise man',
:* E  =  'a certain occasion'.

Recognizing that a little more concreteness will serve as an aid to the understanding, let's augment the Spartan features of Peirce's illustration in the following way:

:* B  =  'Benevolence', a certain character,
:* C  =  'Contributes to Charity', a certain conduct,
:* E  =  'Earlier today', a certain occasion.

The converging operation of all three reasonings is shown in Figure 2.

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|          \      * A ("a wise act")                                  |
|           \       o                                                 |
|            \     /| *                                               |
|             \   / |   *                                             |
|              \ /  |     *                                           |
|               .   |       o B ("benevolence", a certain character)  |
|              / \  |     *                                           |
|             /   \ |   *                                             |
|            /     \| *                                               |
|           /       o                                                 |
|          /      * C ("contributes to charity", a certain conduct)   |
|         /     *                                                     |
|        /    *                                                       |
|       /   *                                                         |
|      /  *                                                           |
|     / *                                                             |
|    /*                                                               |
|   o                                                                 |
|  E ("earlier today", a certain occasion)                            |
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Figure 2.  A Thrice Wise Act
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One of the styles of syntax that Aristotle uses for syllogistic propositions suggests the composite symbols that geometers have long used for labeling line intervals in a geometric figure, and it comports quite nicely with the Figure that we have just drawn.  Specifically, the proposition that predicates X of the subject Y is represented by the digram 'XY' and associated with the line interval XY that descends from the point X to the point Y in the corresponding lattice diagram.  In this wise we make the following observations:

The common proposition that concludes each argument is AC.  Introducing the symbol "&rArr;" to denote the relation of logical implication, the proposition AC can be written as C &rArr; A, and read as "C implies A".  Adopting the parenthetical form of Peirce's alpha graphs, in their ''existential interpretation'', AC can be written as (C (A)), and most easily comprehended as "not C without A".  In the context of the present example, all of these forms are equally good ways of expressing the same concrete proposition, namely, "contributing to charity is wise".

:* Deduction could have obtained the Fact AC from the Rule AB, "benevolence is wisdom", along with the Case BC, "contributing to charity is benevolent".

:* Induction could have gathered the Rule AC, after a manner of saying that "contributing to charity is exemplary of wisdom", from the Fact AE, "the act of earlier today is wise", along with the Case CE, "the act of earlier today was an instance of contributing to charity".

:* Abduction could have guessed the Case AC, in a style of expression stating that "contributing to charity is explained by wisdom", from the Fact DC, "contributing to charity is done by this wise man", and the Rule DA, "everything that is wise is done by this wise man".  Thus, a wise man, who happens to do all of the wise things that there are to do, may nevertheless contribute to charity for no good reason, and even be known to be charitable to a fault.  But all of this notwithstanding, on seeing the wise man contribute to charity we may find it natural to conjecture, in effect, to consider it as a possibility worth examining further, that charity is indeed a mark of his wisdom, and not just the accidental trait or the immaterial peculiarity of his character &mdash; in essence, that wisdom is the ''cause'' of his contribution or the ''reason'' for his charity.

As a general rule, and despite many obvious exceptions, an English word that ends in ''-ion'' denotes equivocally either a process or its result.  In our present application, this means that each of the words ''abduction'', ''deduction'', ''induction'' can be used to denote either the process of inference or the product of that inference, that is, the proposition to which the inference in question leads.

One of the morals of Peirce's illustration can now be drawn.  It demonstrates in a very graphic fashion that the three kinds of inference are three kinds of process and not three kinds of proposition, not if one takes the word ''kind'' in its literal  sense as denoting a ''genus'' of being, essence, or substance.  Said another way, it means that being an abductive Case, a deductive Fact, or an inductive Rule is a category of relation, indeed, one that involves at the very least a triadic relation among propositions, and not a category of essence or substance, that is, not a property that inheres in the proposition alone.

This category distinction between the absolute, essential, or monadic predicates and the more properly relative predicates constitutes a very important theme in Peirce's architectonic.  There is of course a parallel application of it in the theory of sign relations, or semiotics, where the distinctions among the sign relational roles of Object, Sign, and Interpretant are distinct ways of relating to other things, modes of relation that may vary from moment to moment in the extended trajectory of a sign process, and not distinctions that mark some fixed and eternal essence of the thing in itself.

In the normal course of inquiry, the elementary types of inference proceed in the order:  Abduction, Deduction, Induction.  However, the same building blocks can be assembled in other ways to yield different types of complex inferences.  Of particular importance, reasoning by analogy can be analyzed as a combination of induction and deduction, in other words, as the abstraction and the application of a rule.  Because a complicated pattern of analogical inference will be used in our example of a complete inquiry, it will help to prepare the ground if we first stop to consider an example of analogy in its simplest form.

====Abduction====

: ''Main article : [[Abductive reasoning]]''

Much of Peirce's work deals with the scientific and logical questions of [[knowledge]] and [[truth]], questions grounded in his experience as a working logician and experimental scientist, one who was a member of the international community of scientists and thinkers of his day. He made important contributions to [[deductive logic]] (see below), but was primarily interested in the logic of science and specifically in what he called [[abduction (logic)|abduction]] or "hypothesis", as opposed to [[deductive reasoning|deduction]] and [[inductive reasoning|induction]]. Abduction is the process whereby a hypothesis is generated, so that surprising facts may be explained. "There is a more familiar name for it than abduction", Peirce wrote, "for it is neither more nor less than guessing".  Indeed, Peirce considered abduction to be at the heart not only of scientific research but of native human intelligence as well.

In his "Illustrations of the Logic of Science" (CE 3, 325-326), Peirce gives the following example of how abduction nests with deductive and inductive reasoning.  Peirce begins by positing the following three statements:

:*''Rule'':    "All the beans from this bag are white."

:*''Case'':   "These beans are from this bag."

:*''Result'':  "These beans are white."

Now let any two of these statements be Givens (their order not mattering), and let the remaining statement be the Conclusion.  The result is an ''argument'', of which three kinds are possible:

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| ''Premiss'' || Rule || Case || Rule
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| ''Premiss'' || Case || Fact || Fact
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| ''Conclusion'' || Fact || Rule || Case
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====Deduction====

: ''Main article : [[Deductive reasoning]]''

====Induction====

: ''Main article : [[Inductive reasoning]]''

====Analogy====

The classic description of analogy in the syllogistic frame comes from Aristotle, who called this form of inference by the name ''paradeigma'', that is, reasoning by way of example or through the parallel comparison of cases.

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<p>We have an Example [&#960;&#945;&#961;&#945;&#948;&#949;&#953;&#947;&#956;&#945;, analogy] when the major extreme is shown to be applicable to the middle term by means of a term similar to the third.  It must be known both that the middle applies to the third term and that the first applies to the term similar to the third.  (Aristotle, "Prior Analytics", 2.24).</p>
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Aristotle illustrates this pattern of argument with the following sample of reasoning.  The setting is a discussion, taking place in Athens, on the issue of going to war with Thebes.  It is apparently accepted that a war between Thebes and Phocis is or was a bad thing, perhaps from the objectivity lent by non-involvement or perhaps as a lesson of history.

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<p>For example, let ''A'' be 'bad', ''B'' 'to make war on neighbors', ''C'' 'Athens against Thebes', and ''D'' 'Thebes against Phocis'.  Then if we require to prove that war against Thebes is bad,  we must be satisfied that war against neighbors is bad.  Evidence of this can be drawn from similar examples, for example, that war by Thebes against Phocis is bad.  Then since war against neighbors is bad, and war against Thebes is war against neighbors, it is evident that war against Thebes is bad.  (Aristotle, "Prior Analytics", 2.24, with minor alterations).</p>
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Aristotle's sample of argument from analogy may be analyzed in the following way:

First, a Rule is induced from the consideration of a similar Case and a relevant Fact:

:* Case:  D &rArr; B,  Thebes vs Phocis is war against neighbors.
:* Fact:  D &rArr; A,  Thebes vs Phocis is bad.
:* Rule:  B &rArr; A,  War against neighbors is bad.

Next, the Fact to be proved is deduced from the application of the previously induced Rule to the present Case:

:* Case:  C &rArr; B,  Athens vs Thebes is war against neighbors.
:* Rule:  B &rArr; A,  War against neighbors is bad.
:* Fact:  C &rArr; A,  Athens vs Thebes is bad.

In practice, of course, it would probably take a mass of comparable cases to establish a rule.  As far as the logical structure goes, however, this quantitative confirmation only amounts to 'gilding the lily'.  Perfectly valid rules can be guessed on the first try, abstracted from a single experience or adopted vicariously with no personal experience.  Numerical factors only modify the degree of confidence and the strength of habit that govern the application of previously learned rules.

Figure 3 gives a graphical illustration of Aristotle's example of 'Example', that is, the form of reasoning that proceeds by Analogy or according to a Paradigm.

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|      o                                             o      |
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| A  =  Atrocious, Adverse to All, A bad thing              |
| B  =  Belligerent Battle Between Brethren                 |
| C  =  Contest of Athens against Thebes                    |
| D  =  Debacle of Thebes against Phocis                    |
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| A is a major term                                         |
| B is a middle term                                        |
| C is a minor term                                         |
| D is a minor term, similar to C                           |
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Figure 3.  Aristotle's "War Against Neighbors" Example
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In this analysis of reasoning by Analogy, it is a complex or a mixed form of inference that can be seen as taking place in two steps:

:* The first step is an Induction that abstracts a Rule from a Case and a Fact.

:: Case:  D &rArr; B,  Thebes vs Phocis is a battle between neighbors.
:: Fact:  D &rArr; A,  Thebes vs Phocis is adverse to all.
:: Rule:  B &rArr; A,  A battle between neighbors is adverse to all.

:* The final step is a Deduction that applies this Rule to a Case to arrive at a Fact.

:: Case:  C &rArr; B,  Athens vs Thebes is a battle between neighbors.
:: Rule:  B &rArr; A,  A battle between neighbors is adverse to all.
:: Fact:  C &rArr; A,  Athens vs Thebes is adverse to all.

As we see, Aristotle analyzed analogical reasoning into a phase of inductive reasoning followed by a phase of deductive reasoning.  Peirce would pick up the story at this juncture and eventually parse analogy in a couple of different ways, both of them involving all three types of inference:  abductive, deductive, and inductive.