Back to Search
Start Over
Syllogistic reasoning as a ground for the content of judgment: A line of thought from Kant through Hegel to Peirce.
- Source :
- European Journal of Philosophy; Dec2021, Vol. 29 Issue 4, p864-886, 23p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
-
Abstract
- In this paper I develop Paul Redding's suggestion that Peircean abduction and Hegel's discussion of the syllogism can be seen as a working out of Kant's treatment of the reflecting power of judgment, particularly concerning its role in conceptual change. After some historical background I regiment a use of singular terms, kind terms, and predicates across Hegel's three syllogistic figures and reconstruct an account of comprehension and extension for this system suggested by Peirce. In doing so I show that reasoning according to the ampliative syllogistic figures affects the content of these three classes of terms in precise ways. I close with a treatment of inference by analogy (associated by Hegel with the third syllogistic figure) as an exercise of reflection, and I discuss two cases in the history of science, one in astronomy and the other in biology, where a reflective exercise associated with analogical inference revised our understanding of the domain in question. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- REASONING
MORAL judgment
KANTIAN ethics
SYLLOGISM
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09668373
- Volume :
- 29
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- European Journal of Philosophy
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 154545532
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12609