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If p0, Then 1: The Impossibility of Thinking Out Cases (2020)

Flexer, Michael J. (Author)

History of the Human Sciences
Volume: 33
Issue: 3-4
Pages: 175-197
Publication date: 2020
Language: English

DOI: 10.1177/0952695120944032

URI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695120944032

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AIDS (disease); HIV / AIDS Human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) Logic Abduction Reasoning in science Case studies Massachusetts (U.S.) Peirce, Charles Sanders

Forrester’s proposed seventh style of reasoning – thinking in cases – functions as an analogous, dyadic relationship that, whilst indebted philosophically to the logical reasoning and semiotics of Charles Peirce, is prone to creating feedback loops between induction and deduction, precluding novel abductive hypotheses from advancing medical knowledge. Reasoning with a Peircean triadic model opens up the contexts and methods of meaning-making and reasoning through medical cases, and the potent influence of their genre conventions, to intellectual critical scrutiny. Vitally, it offers a third mode – abduction – that this article argues needs to be reintroduced into Forrester’s model of reasoning with cases. This article demonstrates this by applying a Peircean triadic model of reasoning to Forrester’s own model, tracing a shared genealogy but one in which the abductive element was lost. The article goes on to illustrate the explanatory and predictive potential of Peircean abductive reasoning and the necessary re-theorising of the case this entails. This argument is supported through an analysis of early case reports of what would become HIV/Aids, drawn from the Case Records of Massachusetts General Hospital series in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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