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Critical Study on Classification of Deduction and Induction

Hong, Kyung-Nam 1

1중앙대학교

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ABSTRACT

We have frequently taken deduction/induction dichotomy with our education of logic, but any plausible reasons for such taking were not given. There are three requirements of reasonable argument classification, such as evaluative openness, exhaustive exclusiveness, and evaluative effectiveness, and two accounts for the deduction/induction dichotomy based on psychology and achievement, which do not satisfy one or two of those requirements. Trials were made to solve problems related to the classification by selecting any one of the two methods, such as deductivism, inductivism, and modified inductivism. Such trials turned out to be failed, and so, eliminativism that eliminates the deduction / induction classification from the start is tested. With the testing of the eliminativism is it noted that argument analysis and argument evaluation should not be regarded as completely separated projects. In case we understand the contextual interaction of the argument analysis and the argument evaluation, the adoption of the post-evaluative deduction / induction classification can avoid or solve the argument dichotomy- related problems. And it is claimed that the pluralistic argument classification, not the monistic or the dualistic, should be rightly granted, at which we as theorists of argument should aim.

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