Re: Cloud storage

Posted by Steve Smith on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Cloud-storage-tp7582450p7582626.html

Doug -

I think you are reaching here...

I've always said that.  Ask anybody, they'll tell you. They'll say, that Roberts guy is always saying, "it is unfortunate that enthymeme resolution is treated as a kind of presumptive meaning determination". 

It fact, it's been pointed out to that I say this so often, it's almost become my meme. So I think I'll stop saying it.

...As in reaching around behind yourself and grabbing your "abduction" in both hands...

I loved this excerpt from the Wikipedia link to "Abductive Reasoning":

Abduction:  The term was first introduced by the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) as "guessing".

And of course, an enthymeme is:

an informally stated syllogism (a three-part deductive argument) with an unstated assumption that must be true for the premises to lead to the conclusion part of the argument is missing because it is assumed.

and... to elaborate further:

Aristotle, who defined it in his Rhetoric, an enthymeme was a "rhetorical syllogism" which was based on probable opinions, thus distinguishing it from a scientific syllogism. It is aimed at persuasion while scientific syllogism is aimed at demonstration

*I* do find unpacking Glen's obscure linguistic constructs both informative and entertaining.   I think you'll be seeing a lot more references to "abduction" on the list now, if not the enthymemetic conjugation of multipart syllogisms within the context of the larger semantic tableaux.

(+1 for Glen's taglines)
- Steve

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