Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of retroducting, drawing back, or retracting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A leading or bringing back.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A leading or bringing back.
Etymologies
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Latin retroducere, retroductum, to lead or bring back; retro backward + ducere to lead.
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Examples
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This new type of argument Peirce called abduction (also, retroduction, and also, hypothesis).
Nobody Knows Nothing 2009
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If it is not observed and later on leads to serious consequences, their cause can not possibly be sought out, because it can not be recognized as such, and because there have been so many intermediate steps that a correct retroduction is impossible.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911
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“retroduction” were Peirce's synonyms for the form of reasoning leading to conjectural hypotheses.
PRAGMATISM PHILIP P. WIENER 1968
hernesheir commented on the word retroduction
Work backwards to figure this one out.
November 19, 2010