On Abduction and Interpretation

Main Article Content

Antonio Duarte

Abstract

Here, I focus on deviations of intent, from that expressed by the standard or ordinary use of language, in instances where abductive reasoning plays a necessary role. In such cases, speakers usually utter some “mysterious” words based on the assumed abductive capability of their interlocutors. In order to cause the desired effect in the audience, the speaker relies on the hearer’s knowledge of the relevant common dialogue framework and thus uses the utterance as an abductive trigger. For purposes of explanation, I present a curious kind of (pseudo)fallacy: ironic (pseudo)fallacy.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Article Details

How to Cite
Duarte, A. (2019). On Abduction and Interpretation. Crítica. Revista Hispanoamericana De Filosofía, 51(151), 65–84. https://doi.org/10.22201/iifs.18704905e.2019.03

PLUMX Metrics

References

Aliseda, A., 2006, Abductive Reasoning. Logical Investigations into Dis- covery and Explanation, Springer, Dordrecht.

Anderson, D.R., 2005, “The Esthetic Attitude of Abduction”, Semiotica, vol. 153, no. 1, pp. 9–22.

Anderson, D.R., 1986, “The Evolution of Peirce’s Concept of Abduction”, Transac- tions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 145–164.

Arrighi, C. and R. Ferrario, 2008, “Abductive Reasoning, Interpretation and Collaborative Processes”, Foundations of Science, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 75–87.

Barés Gómez, C. and M. Fontaine, 2017, “Argumentation and Abduction in Dialogical Logic”, in L. Magnani and T. Bertolotti (eds.), Handbook of Model-Base Science, Springer, Cham.

Chiasson, P., 2001, Logica Utens http://www.digitalpeirce.fee.unicamp.br/ p-logchi.htm [retrieved: 30/05/2019].

Davidson, D., 2006, “A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs”, in The Essential Davidson, Oxford University Press, New York.

Douven, I., 2011, “Abduction”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2011 Edition) in E.N. Zalta (ed.) https://plato.stanford.edu/ar- chives/spr 2011/entries/abduction/ [retrieved: 30/05/2019].

Doyle, A.C., 2009, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, eBooks@Adelaide, The University of Adelaide https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/doyle/ar- thur_conan/d75ca/ [retrieved: 30/05/2019].

Duarte, A., 2018, “Abducción y logica docens”, Revista de Filosofía, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 27–47.

Duarte, A., 2015, “Abducción y diálogo persuasivo: Elemental, querido Peirce”, Revista Iberoamericana de Argumentación, vol. 11, pp. 1–33.

Eco, U. and T.A. Sebeok (eds.), 1988, The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce, Indiana University Press, Bloomington.

Fann, K.T., 1970, Peirce’s Theory of Abduction, Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague.

Gabbay, D.M. and J. Woods, 2005, The Reach of Abduction. Insight and Trial, Elsevier, Amsterdam.

García-Carpintero, M., 2008, Las palabras, las ideas y las cosas, Ariel, Barcelona.

Grice, H.P., 1975, “Logic and Conversation”, in P. Cole and J.L. Morgan (eds.), Syntax and Semantics 3: Speech Acts, Academic Press, New York, pp. 41–58.

Hintikka, J., 1998, “What Is Abduction? The Fundamental Problem of Contemporary Epistemology”, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 503–533.

Macagno, F. and D. Walton, 2013, “Implicatures as Forms of Argument”, in A. Capone, F. Lo Piparo and M. Carapezza (eds.), Perspectives on Pragmatics and Philosophy, Springer, Berlin, New York, pp. 203–224.

Magnani, L., 2009, “Abductive Cognition. The Epistemological and Eco- Cognitive Dimensions of Hypothetical Reasoning”, in R. Dillmann, Y. Nakamura, S. Schaal, and D. Vernon, (eds.), Cognitive Systems Monographs, vol. 3, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

Magnani, L., 2001, Abduction, Reason and Science. Processes of Discovery and Explanation, Kluwer Academic, Plenum Publishers, New York.

Niño, D., 2007, Abducting Abduction. Avatares sobre la comprensión de la Abducción de Charles S. Peirce, PhD dissertation, Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

Paavola, S., 2004, “Abduction as a Logic and Methodology of Discovery: The Importance of Strategies”, Foundations of Science, vol. 9, pp. 267– 283.

Peirce, C.S., 1931-1958, Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, vols. 1–8, ed. P. Weiss, C. Hartshorne, and A.W. Burks, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. [CP].

Pietarinen, A.-V., 2005, “Cultivating habits of reason: Peirce and the logica utens versus logica docens distinction”, History of Philosophy Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 357–372.

Van Eemeren, F.H., 2010, Strategic Maneuvering in Argumentative Dis- course, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam.

Van Eemeren, F.H. and R. Grootendorst, 1987, “Fallacies in Pragma- Dialectical Perspective”, Argumentation, vol. 1, pp. 283–301.

Van Eemeren, F.H. and R. Grootendorst, 1984, Speech Acts in Communicative Discussions, Foris, Dordrecht. Wagemans, J.H.M., 2014, “The Assessment of Argumentation Based on Abduction”, in D. Mohammed and M. Lewins ́ki (eds.), Virtues of Argumentation: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA), 22–26 May 2013, OSSA, Windsor, ON.

Walton, D.N., 2004, Abductive Reasoning, The University of Alabama Press, Alabama.

Wirth, U., 2001, “Abductive Reasoning and Language Philosophy: Peirce’s and Davidson’s Account of Interpretation”, in M. Bergman and J. Queiroz (eds.), The Commens Encyclopedia: The Digital Encyclopedia of Peirce Studies. New Edition, Pub. 121220-1059a http://www.com- mens.org/encyclopedia/article/wirth-uwe-abductive-reasoning-and-language- philosophy-peirces-and-davidsons [retrieved: 30/05/2019].

Yu, S. and F. Zenker., 2017, “Peirce Knew Why Abduction Isn’t IBE. A Scheme and Critical Questions for Abductive Argument”, Argumenta- tion, vol. 32. no. 4, pp. 569–587.