Communication, Action and Inductive Practice. The practical effects of inductive reasoning on the patterns of human relation

Abstract

The remarks that I wish to propose in this paper concern the possibility that the pragmatic meaning of communication can be in certain circumstances in contradiction with its explicit content, i.e. the literal meaning of what is said. This topic, in my perspective, is related especially to the ideas of Bateson, Watzlawick and the Palo Alto Group, and Luhmann. It’s sketched an epistemological perspective which is conceived in order to consider the question of inductive inference, also in its psychological dimension and particularly in its relation with the pragmatic dimension of inter-personal relation.