Проблемът за абдуктивния извод: между магията и разомагьосването
The Problem of Abductive Inference: Between Magic and Disenchantment

Summary/Abstract: In the article I start from the already discussed problem of subjectivity in the abductive inference, aiming to offer a deeper experimental analysis of its endogenous practical logic in the light of the problem of the so-called metamorphoses of magic and disenchantment in the context of the problems of theories of self-mediation structures. To this end, I first present in detail the problem of the functions of the abductive inference, and against this background then I present an experimental analysis of the case of innovative labor – the story of Thomas Edison’s invention of the electric lamp and his attempts to turn it into an economic innovation. In it, against the background of general moments of factual history,the results of an analysis of the endogenous practical logic of the dialectical and the results of an analysis of the nonclassical logic of the dialectical are explicitly presented(retaining in each of these analyzes the point of view of one another, although in most cases implicitly). Thus, analyzing the abductive inference from the perspective of the problems of theories of self-mediation structures, the article summarizes the chances that this inference provides for thinking multidimensionally the metamorphoses of magic and disenchantment as a special case of the more general problem of both the functioning and the mutual mediation of functionally differentiated and functionally diffuse structures.

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