Tensive pattern of inductive, deductive and abductive arguments

Abstract

With this article we intend to pay homage to the creator of the tensive semiotics, Claude Zilberberg, deceased recently. We try to demonstrate the scope of the central thesis of his theoretical postulations, that of the omnipresence of affection in any and all discursive products, from the arts to the logics of science. Indeed, affective entities have a high relevance in the economy of meaning, since, as we shall try to show, they even measure the degree of internal cohesion of the three types of argument identified by Peirce: deductive, inductive, and abductive. These three types of argument differ from one another according to the degree of salience of the conclusion within the argumentative structure and the power of doxality referring to the propositions that prepare the conclusion.