Publication at Central Library of Charles University |
2020
Abstract
The article draws attention to the limits of human knowledge in revealing factual questions (a consequence of the rejection of causal determinism represented here by the Laplace's demon). At the same time, however, it is shown how the best possible explanation of a certain state of affairs can be achieved, on the example of an analysis of William's procedure in investigating the loss of horse Brunellus , which U.
Eco describes in his novel The Name of the Rose. The key is seen in Peirce's theory of abduction, or more precisely in the criteria he developed to select the best possible solution to a certain factual hypothesis.