Abductive Reasoning in Peirce's and Davidson's Account of Interpretation

Wirth, Uwe

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“…In his interesting paper, Wirth (1999) has drawn a parallel between Davidson's ideas on interpretation as formulation of theories and the process of abductive inference presented by C.S. Peirce in many of his works (See Hartshorne andWeiss 1931-1958).…”

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“…Davidson's position is that this agreement cannot be reached by simply following the rules of language, but we need extralinguistic abilities, namely the ability of forming provisional hypotheses on the interpretation of the words uttered by other speakers, and the ability of revising these hypotheses through the interaction with other speakers and the environment. This idea of provisional hypotheses is at the core of the connection with abductive reasoning, as it is shown in Wirth (1999). However, we think that there is more to be said about this connection, in particular regarding the role played by the interaction with other speakers and the environment.…”

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Abductive Reasoning, Interpretation and Collaborative Processes

Arrighi

Ferrario

2008

Found Sci

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In this paper we want to examine how the mutual understanding of speakers is reached during a conversation through collaborative processes, and what role is played by abductive inference (in the Peircean sense) in these processes. We do this by bringing together contributions coming from a variety of disciplines, such as logic, philosophy of language and psychology. When speakers are engaged in a conversation, they refer to a supposed common ground: every participant ascribes to the others some knowledge, belief, opinion etc. on which to rely in order to reach mutual understanding. As the conversation unfolds, this common ground is continually corrected and reshaped by the interchanges. An abductive reasoning takes place, in a collaborative setting, in order to build new possible theories about the common ground. In reconstructing this process through the use of a working example, we argue that the integration of a collaborative perspective within the Peircean theory of abduction can help to solve some of the drawbacks that the critics of the latter have outlined, for example its permissivity and non generativity.

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Abductive Reasoning, Interpretation and Collaborative Processes

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2008

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“…The recipient reasons about discursive relationships between the resources which maintain the film's content, its events and participants and their functional embedding in the context. It is therefore an essentially defeasible meaning construction which goes back to the notion of abduction introduced by Peirce as a basic logical form (Peirce, et al 1979(Peirce, et al [1931; Wirth 2005). Abduction seeks a possible cause of an assumption, which always remains questionable.…”

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Intersemiosis in film: Towards a new organisation of semiotic resources in multimodal filmic text

Wildfeuer

2012

Journal Multimodal Communication

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This article is concerned with the analysis of multimodal filmic text from a formalfunctional perspective. It presents a new and integrative framework which has been developed on the basis of a formal description of coherence and structure in verbal discourse in order to be able to articulate in detail how inferential strategies and defeasible reasoning can be included as a foundation for making meaning in the analysis of multimodal discourse. The article will, on the one hand, present the mechanisms of this framework for examining the intersemiosis of the filmic resources and, on the other hand, demonstrate the adequacy of this analytical tool with the help of an example analysis of a sequence taken from the movie Vanilla Sky. It will thus outline how it is possible to organise filmic semiotic resources more systematically and to describe the entire meaning-making process on various levels of film interpretation. Vol 1(3):277-304 multimodal communication Brought to you by | Carleton University OCUL i n t r o d u c t i o nOne of the main interests in multimodal research is the identification and analysis of the 'defining attributes of a multisemiotic text' (Liu and O'Halloran 2009:368) in order to investigate how semiotic resources integrate and influence meaning construction. Various approaches to this topic have therefore tried to organise Multimodal Discourse Analysis according to a metafunctional and stratificational organisation based on the framework of systemic-functional linguistics (Halliday 2004;Kress and van Leeuwen 2001;Jewitt and Oyama 2001;van Leeuwen 2005).This also includes the analysis of multimodal filmic text which often tries to organise and prestructure filmic devices in order to provide sources of interpretation (Tseng and Bateman 2012:5; van Leeuwen 1991;O'Halloran 2004;Tseng 2009). The fundamental postulate in film interpretation of this kind is that the comprehension of filmic text is not a matter of simply decoding the semiotic resources, but rather a process of logically deriving the content with the help of world and film knowledge and on the basis of the film's discursive context. It is thus a twofold process of film comprehension, as David Bordwell formulates:Understanding is mediated by transformative acts, both "bottom-up" -mandatory, automatic psychological processes -and "top-down" -conceptual, strategic ones. The sensory data of the film at hand furnish the materials out of which inferential processes of perception and cognition build meanings. Meanings are not found but made. (Bordwell 1989:3) This meaning-making process has therefore to be described from both these perspectives: as bottom-up operations that construct the meaning out of the technical filmic devices and as top-down processes that furnish the 'higher level textual data upon which interpreters base their inferences' (Bordwell 1989:3). Only the combination of both perspectives makes it possible to find a systematic way of classifying the resources according to their functions within the context and their respo...

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“…Paavola, Hakkarainen, and Sintonen (2006) consider the interplay between internal and external aspects of abductive reasoning in the framework of the interrogative model of the so-called "explanation-seeking why-questions" and in light of the perspective of distributed cognition. They emphasize interaction with the "environment" and show the importance of the heuristic strategies and of their trialogic nature (inquirer and fellow inquirers, object of inquiry, mediating artifacts and processes), also taking advantage of Davidson's ideas (Davidson 2001) -already stressed by Wirth (1999Wirth ( , 2005) -concerning triangulation. 21 Let us imagine that we choose a different representational system still exploiting material and external diagrams.…”

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External diagrammatization and iconic brain co-evolution

Magnani

2011

Semiotica

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Our brains make up a series of signs and are engaged in making or manifesting or reacting to a series of signs: through this semiotic activity they are at the same time engaged in "being minds." An important effect of this semiotic activity of brains is a continuous process of "externalization of the mind" that exhibits a new cognitive perspective on the mechanisms underlying the semiotic emergence of abductive processes of meaning formation. I consider this process of externalization interplay critical in analyzing the relation between meaningful semiotic internal resources and devices and their dynamical interactions with the externalized semiotic materiality suitably stocked in the environment. The last part of the paper will describe some aspects of this interplay between external diagrammatization and internal recapitulation showing the specificity of their co-evolution.

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Abductive Reasoning in Peirce's and Davidson's Account of Interpretation

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Abductive Reasoning, Interpretation and Collaborative Processes

Abductive Reasoning, Interpretation and Collaborative Processes

Intersemiosis in film: Towards a new organisation of semiotic resources in multimodal filmic text

External diagrammatization and iconic brain co-evolution

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