Re: Topic :> Dynamics Of Ontologies

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Topic :> Dynamics Of Ontologies 10

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Visible Inquiry (cont.)

At any given time, acting on the basis of the theory that we have
formed up to that time, we propose consequences and outcomes that
would result if our theory were true, and thus we form a model of
how the phenomenon in question would act.  This is our deductive
process.  Its general character, as C.S. Peirce expounded, is to
explicate the more hidden folds that are implicated in theories.
Figure 2.3 plots the application of deduction, otherwise called
by the name of "explicative" reasoning, as it runs between the
stations of our initial theory and our initial model of the 
phenomenon in question.

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|                                                           |
|                           Phenomenon                      |
|                                o                          |
|                                 >                         |
|                                  >                        |
|                                   >                       |
|                               Observation                 |
|                                     >                     |
|                                      >                    |
|                                       >                   |
|                                        >    Descriptive   |
|                                         >   Data          |
|       Initial Model  3                   1                |
|                     ^                 <                   |
|                    ^               <                      |
|                   ^             <                         |
|                  ^           <                            |
|      Deduction  ^     Abduction                           |
|                ^       <                                  |
|               ^     <                                     |
|              ^   <                                        |
|             ^ <                                           |
|   Initial  2                                              |
|   Theory                                                  |
|                                                           |
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Figure 2.3.  Dynamics of Inquiry -- Deduction

Jon Awbrey

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