Rules and Contingencies

"No rule can be derived from the contingencies... We need a separate term only to describe the deriving of a rule from the contingencies." B. F. Skinner (1974), pp. 148-49

Among the era of dubious mentalism and chaotic postmodernism, when it comes to engaging in rules and contingencies, we tend to be the extremes: i.e., deductive, or inductive, hardly giving any thought to abduction, the third, long-forgotten recourse for us to have for the issue of rules and contingencies.
　According to Skinner, the heart of induction is; First there was contingencies (=chance), then when human learned to reason or infer, rules were derived from the contingencies. What he obviously says above is that rules cannot emerge by itself. It means that we use our inferences to describe what seems regularly to happen in nature. This is pure principle of science.
Further, Skinner also says, "The extraction of rules was evidently a secondary stage" (p. 150). The initial stage, contingent characteristics of nature, is, what I think falls to behavorist's lot since we are moved to seek order in chaos, intending desperately and intuitively to foresighted validity and objectivity. This looks to me very much similar to the heart of Peirce's abduction. ao

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