Discovery practices in natural sciences: from analogy to preduction

In this paper I face up to Charles Peirce’s view that deduction can never originate any idea whatsoever. According to him new ideas come to science only by means of abduction. I affirm on my side that deductive reasoning can be extended to the context of discovery in mathematical physics. Thus a new...

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Main Author: Andrés Rivadulla
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2008-10-01
Series:Revista de Filosofia
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Online Access:http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RESF/article/view/9986