Abducción, método científico e Historia. Un acercamiento al pensamiento de Charles Pierce
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2015-05
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Revista Páginas. Escuela de Historia. Facultad de Humanidades y Artes. Universidad Nacional de Rosario
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El trabajo se propone analizar las formas de inferencia propuestas por Charles Peirce y, en particular, la importancia que adjudica a la abducción, a fin de reflexionar sobre su utilidad para la investigación científica y su aplicabilidad en el campo de la Historia. Según Peirce, la abducción es el proceso por el cual se forma la hipótesis explicativa. Su relevancia procede de la convicción de que es el único modo de inferencia que introduce una nueva idea, siendo fuente de otras hipótesis y, por tanto, tiene un sentido claramente creativo, con todo lo que esto significa para el avance del quehacer científico. En este marco, nos proponemos considerar los aportes posibles al método histórico. El presente artículo, luego de analizar la abducción en términos lógicos y metodológicos, intentará una transposición a las Ciencias Sociales y, en particular, a la Historia.
This work's intention is to analyze the forms of inference proposed by Charles Peirce and the importance it assigns to abduction in particular, in order to reflect on its utility to scientific investigation and its applicability in the field of history. According to Peirce, abduction is the process through which explanatory hypotheses are formed. Its relevance comes from the certainty that it is the only form of inference that introduces a new idea; it is a source of other hypotheses and, therefore, it has a clearly creative direction, with everything that means to the progress of scientific work. In this framework, we propose to consider possible contributions to the historical method. In this article, after analyzing abduction in logical and methodological terms, we will attempt to transpose it to the social sciences and to history in particular.
This work's intention is to analyze the forms of inference proposed by Charles Peirce and the importance it assigns to abduction in particular, in order to reflect on its utility to scientific investigation and its applicability in the field of history. According to Peirce, abduction is the process through which explanatory hypotheses are formed. Its relevance comes from the certainty that it is the only form of inference that introduces a new idea; it is a source of other hypotheses and, therefore, it has a clearly creative direction, with everything that means to the progress of scientific work. In this framework, we propose to consider possible contributions to the historical method. In this article, after analyzing abduction in logical and methodological terms, we will attempt to transpose it to the social sciences and to history in particular.
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Charles Peirce, Abducción, Método científico, Historia, Abduction, Scientific method, History