Peirce's Abduction and Polanyi's Tacit Knowing

Mullins, Phil

doi:10.1353/jsp.2003.0005

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“…As an inference, abduction must provide an explanation of the surprising fact, even if this explanation is speculative and fallible (Minnameier, 2004). It remains a hypothesis subject to further testing; it may also represent an efficient judgment in the face of uncertainty because it may draw deeply on our habits and past experience (Mullins, 2002). 11 It is a form of reasoning used in scientific inquiry, criminal detection, and clinical diagnosis (Eco & Sebeok, 1988).…”

Section: Black Swans Must Exist In Australiamentioning

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Taming Deep Uncertainty: The Potential of Pragmatist Principles for Understanding and Improving Strategic Crisis Management

Ansell

Boin

2017

Administration & Society

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Modern societies are increasingly faced with “unknown unknowns,” Black Swans, and mega-crises. Both public and corporate leaders find it deeply challenging to respond to these crisis events. Existing approaches and tools to cope with crisis-induced uncertainty are of little help in these dynamic environments. This article explores how the principles of Pragmatism may provide the building blocks for a theory of effective strategic crisis management. We argue that these principles, formulated by a group of American philosophers in a time of deep uncertainty, provide a way of thinking that will help practitioners prepare for, and deal with, emerging risks, crises, and disasters.

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Section: Black Swans Must Exist In Australiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Taming Deep Uncertainty: The Potential of Pragmatist Principles for Understanding and Improving Strategic Crisis Management

Ansell

Boin

2017

Administration & Society

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“…This link, which has been given little attention in the literature (but see, for example, Mullins 2002 andBertilsson 2004), is indicative of how abduction is not meant to be a process which generates new hypotheses but rather a process which generates good, clear, verifiable, explanatory hypotheses. The first ground, as detailed in our first section, is the intimate link between abduction, pragmatism and the question of logical goodness in Peirce's Lectures on Pragmatism.…”

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“…These tensions are exacerbated by two factors. What is more, in the course of Peirce's career he discusses abduction in relation to such disparate themes as inference, instinct, perceptual judgments (Nesher 2002), the "economy" of research (Minnameier 2004;McKaughan 2008), and the maxim of pragmatism (Pape 1997;Mullins 2002;Bertilsson 2004;Paavola 2005). 1 Second, there is a temporal development in Peirce's reflection on abduction (Burks 1946, 301;Anderson 1986, 145;and Paavola 2011, 253).…”

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The Logical Goodness of Abduction in C. S. Peirce's Thought

Khachab¹

2013

Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society

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The term "abduction" has been used with different meanings since its introduction in C. S. Peirce's writings. It has been used to refer to inference to the best explanation, hypothetical inference, inference to new explanations, and a guessing-instinct. These meanings converge to solve a central problem: how do new ideas emerge in inquiry? Different authors defend different meanings of "abduction" which, in their view, resolve this fundamental problem. This article seeks to displace the central question of abduction in order to account more coherently for its different meanings in Peirce's thought. It is argued that abduction is not concerned with the emergence of new ideas in reasoning but instead with how ideas are made to fulfill their logical purpose. Since the logical goodness of abduction is most directly treated in Peirce's 1903 Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism, this article first examines the link between abduction, pragmatism, and logical goodness in those lectures. This initial examination leads us to displace the central question of abduction, from "how do new ideas emerge?" to "how do ideas fulfill their logical purpose?"

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“…(71) (82) (83). There exist several variations and definitions of abduction, mainly because Peirce's writings typically are fragmented (69) (84).…”

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Exploring an open-loop RFID implementation in the automotive industry

Hellström

Wiberg

2009

2009 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies &Amp; Factory Automation

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This master thesis has been carried out in Next Generation Innovative Logistics (NGIL), which is a VINN Excellence Center based at Lund University sponsored by Vinnova, the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation System. III ACKNOWLEDGMENT I would like to show my gratitude to my supervisor, Daniel Hellström, at the packaging logistics division at LTH for his expertise, help and suggestions and for his support during this thesis.I would also like to express thanks to Mikael Erlandsson at Plastal and Olle Hydbom at RFID Constructors for supplying me with the information and data I needed to complete this thesis.Last but not least, a big thanks to my family for giving me hope and strength and support through this thesis. This thesis couldn't have been done without your support. RFID technology has become very popular in recent years (1). It is said to have potential to increase the level of automation (2), reduce the labor levels and to improve the supply chain in areas such as inventory, visibility etc. (3) (see chapter 1.2.1 for more examples). PAGO is one of the first major companies in Sweden that have implemented an open-loop RFID system (see chapter 1.2.3.2) that tag on item level. They are also a supplier of injection-molded and surfacetreated plastic to the automotive industry; an industry that is characterized by high level of automation and fierce competition. It is thus very interesting to investigate why and how PAGO implemented RFID technology; did any problem arise? How did they solve them? What where their underlying reasons?To minimize the errors caused by manual updating -resulting in incorrect storage levels -PAGO have implemented a RFID system. The system has 24 RFID gates, divided into seven places: injection molding, entry and exit point of high storage 1, paint shop, entry and exit point of high storage 2 and after the sequencing process. The RFID system will help reduce the effects of entering the wrong quantity at the entry and exit point for high storage 1 and 2. It will also reduce the effects of specifying the wrong color or product. Furthermore, it will also help them verifying that each product is correctly assembled.During the implementation, PAGO encountered some problems with ESD, reading too much or too little, tags becoming partially or completely detached and a long installation time. Most of these problems have been fixed but some of them remain.There exist several reasons why PAGO implemented a RFID system, other than verifying the assembly and minimizing the effect caused by manual updating. One of those is believed to be because of the nature of the company -They only have 8h to sequence deliver the order, high turnover rates with expensive products and highly automated processes. Another reason is that RFID was a solution that solved both of their specified problems, but also supplying them with more features. Other reasons are that it will probably become a demand from Volvo in the future and that the technology is more future proof than any other technology that would ha...

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Peirce's Abduction and Polanyi's Tacit Knowing

Cited by 20 publications

References 14 publications

Taming Deep Uncertainty: The Potential of Pragmatist Principles for Understanding and Improving Strategic Crisis Management

Taming Deep Uncertainty: The Potential of Pragmatist Principles for Understanding and Improving Strategic Crisis Management

The Logical Goodness of Abduction in C. S. Peirce's Thought

Exploring an open-loop RFID implementation in the automotive industry

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