Syllogistic reasoning as a ground for the content of judgment

A line of thought from Kant through Hegel to Peirce

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ID21603017
AuthorsPreston Stovall (0000-0002-5860-4355, Philosophy Faculty University of Hradec Králové Hradec Králové Czechia, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume29
Issue4
Pages864-886
Publication date2021-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0966-8373 • E-ISSN: 1468-0378
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/ejop.12609
OpenAlexW3097504447
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited47

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

Analogy · Comprehension · Epistemology · Hegelianism · Inference · Linguistics · Syllogism · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Philosophy, Science, and History · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education · Psychology

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