From ugly duckling to swan: C.S. Peirce, abduction, and the pursuit of scientific theories

Transactions of the Charles S Peirce Society

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 446-468

  McKaughan, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Abduction; Discovery; Economy; Inference to the best explanation; Justification; Peirce; Pursuit; Pursuitworthiness; Retroduction; Scientific method

Indexed keywords

EID: 61149562624     PISSN: 00091774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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