Concrete systematic inference.

Citation

Bosanquet, B. (1911). Concrete systematic inference. In B. Bosanquet, Logic or the morphology of knowledge (pp. 185-207). New York, NY, US: Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/13761-006

Abstract

A pure hypothetical judgment, the outcome of scientific Induction or the embodiment of abstract relations in combination, expresses a synthetic connection based upon an underlying real system. Analogical inference, from which scientific Induction was a divergence, depended rather upon an estimate, usually inadequate, of such real systems in their concrete import. Now if, as a result of a highly exhaustive Scientific Induction taken together with an Analogical reasoning, we are able to recombine the abstract relations which the former has disclosed one by one, into a single totality which has an obvious significance, then this totality or system is the real determinate ground of each separate relational judgment that enters into our conception of it, and belongs, at the same time, to the concrete or categorical type of knowledge. For the ground which warrants a hypothetical judgment is in the last resort always a real system, and moreover the content of every judgment is understood to have such Reality as it is capable of. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)