...Johanna Winant In this article, the author argues that we should understand Walt Whitman’s catalog as a poetic form that is also a logical form — enumerative induction. Whitman’s catalogs — his characteristic technique of generating long lists — have long been recognized as central to his poetics...

... , the initial discussion of Nelson Goodman's paradox of induction (the “grue” paradox) demonstrates, on the one hand, the utility of the future-in-the-past of moment t , and, on the other hand, how this paradox exercises an abolition of time: all composition is now . The ensuing discussion of condensation...

..., research has suggested that metaphors might work in the other direction also, namely, from abstract to concrete. For example, induction of suspicion leads to improved detection of the smell of fish than of other odors. Are these similarities between synesthesia and metaphors just superficial or do...

...). Forester, E. S. 1960 “Introduction,” in Topics, in Aristotle in 23 Volumes , translated by Hugh Tredennick, 265 -71 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press). Groarke, Louis 2000 “A Deductive Account of Induction,” Science et Esprit 52 : 353 -69. Guthrie, W. K. C. 1981 History of Greek...

... of intellectual inquiry and imaginative prac- tice within which these formalisms are nested logic and literature share a number of surprising symmetries and historical contacts. From the pun on Scholastic logic in Geoffrey Chaucer s Summoner s Tale to the inductive patterns undergirding Walt Whitman s verse...

... and a posteriori inductions— a distinction that will serve as the basis for his argument attempting to debunk the machine as a fake. For Poe’s readership, the most captivating question concerns whether or not somebody is concealed within the machine—a question that amounts, for the antebellum audience...

... the language of symbolic logic. Johanna Winant argues for the sensitivity of logical language in anotherway: she uses a logical concept, enumerative induction, to illuminate Walt Whitman s habit of generating lists in his poetry. Whitman s lists, Winant argues, quite delib- erately construct an inductive...

..., the formalists took an inductive and com- Merrill † Historical Poetics and Poetic Language 529 parative approach. Amassing diverse examples from literary prose, poetry, or folklore, they sought to identify reoccurring patterns or devices in this material. They did not generally...

... as “conceptual integration” or “blending” theory. 376 Poetics Today 30:3 ing questions of speculative and practical philosophy in experiential and inductive terms, the theory of association threatened to rob morality of any innate foundation or developmental certainty. Because simple ideas...

.... If that is at all correct, it might have been stated on the first page. In any case, that is how I am going to come at the book in what follows, trying to work out Walsh’s general position inductively from what I take to be a series of related analyses. For Booth, rhetoric concerns persuasion; his approach...

... to Eight Years , 2 vols. (London: J. Marshall). Gelman, Susan, and Ellen Markman 1987 “Young Children's Inductions from Natural Kinds: The Role of Categories and Appearances,” Child Development 58 : 1532 -41. Hirschfeld, Lawrence A. 1994 “Is the Acquisition of Social Categories Based on Domain...

.... In a next step, the first three top-level categories were further specified, partly in a deductive manner on the basis of the three-perspective conceptualization, partly in an inductive manner, drawing upon the first sample of 602 e-mails. With respect to the pragmatic perspective, it was coded whether...

... “Literary Processing and Interpretation: Towards Empirical Foundations,” Poetics 22 , nos. 1 – 2 : 5 – 33 , doi: 10.1016/0304 – 422x(93)90018 – c . Eibl Karl 2009 “The Induction Instinct: The Evolution and Poetic Application of a Cognitive Tool,” Studies in the Literary Imagination...

... and genius’’ to ripen into ‘‘the age of philosophical thinking [that] was yet but in its dawn’’ at the publication of Curiosities: An induction from a variety of particulars seemed to me to combine that delight, which Johnson derived from anecdotes, with that philosophy which Bolingbroke founded...

... by this same general constraint. Furthermore, in characterizing types of explanans, Hempel distinguishes between causal (or deterministic) and statistical laws. Accordingly, CLM explanations can be divided into deductive-nomological and inductive-statistical types (see Lambert and Britten 1998...

..., traduction (trans- lation), transduction, induction, deduction, education (itself derived from ex- ducere), conduite or conduction, seduction, and so on.14 Each model of reproduction de´borde its own conceptuality, its own field of inscription, and this de´bordement is performed in the text of the seminars I...

... views on the matter in hand. In a chapter devoted to paradigmatic readings of poems from Sappho to John Ashbery, Culler adopts an inductive approach in order to unearth those qualities of the lyric he sees as ignored or undervalued by current models of the genre. One of the central features shared...

... to philosophy (or the history of metaphysical or theological doctrines) nor to linguistically informed literary scholarship typical of eastern Europe. Because of the specificity of the analyses, I will limit my review to a tentative “induction,” that is, a selection of representative 1. Roszak (2012...

...: From Concepts through Experiencing,” in Understanding Experience:Psychotherapy and Postmodernism , edited by Roger Frie, 100 -115 (London: Routledge). Gerrards-Hesse, Astrid, Kordelia Spies, and Friedrich W. Hesse 1994 “Experimental Inductions of Emotional States and Their Effectiveness,” British...

... functions of induction and deduction, which are predi- cated on objectifying perceptions of the external world. It reflects the more basic, primordial, precategorial level of emotion and sensory memory of Maurice Merleau-­Ponty’s (1962 [1945]) phenomenology and the more recent understanding...