%0 Journal Article
%T Peirce, la Abducci¨®n y la Investigaci¨®n Cient¨ªfica
%A Roberto Espejo
%J Revista Observaciones Filos¨®ficas
%D 2008
%I Pontificia Universidad C¨¢tolica de Valpara¨ªso
%X In this paper C.S. Peirce¡¯s concept of abduction is explored. To this goal Peirce¡¯s notion of abduction as a mode of inference is articulated to the other two classical modes: induction and deduction. The importance of this concept, as a way to explain the creation of an explicative hypothesis for a certain phenomenon, is shown. That gives to abduction an important role in the search for a model or a theory of scientific research. Finally, Peirce¡¯s proposition of the existence of a ¡°rational instinct¡± that could give a fundament to his conception of abduction, based in his metaphysical assumptions, is discussed.
%K Abduction
%K Rational Instinct
%K Modes of Inference
%K Scientific Research
%K C.S. Peirce
%K Epistemology
%K Logic of Scientific Discovery
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