Abstract
According to Peirce, normative sciences are the “most purely theoretical of purely theoretical sciences.” At the same time, he takes logic to be a normative science. These two sentences form a highly interesting pair of assertions. Why is logic among the most purely theoretical sciences? What does it actually mean that logic is a normative science? This chapter answers these questions by addressing the question of why the normativity of logic is, as a matter of fact, based on rules.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Normative Thought of Charles S. Peirce |
| Editors | Cornelis de Waal, Krysztof Piotr Skowroński |
| Publisher | Fordham University Press |
| Chapter | 8 |
| Pages | 172-184 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780823250769, 9780823246250 |
| ISBN (Print) | 0823242447, 9780823242443 |
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| Publication status | Published - 14 Aug 2012 |
User-Defined Keywords
- normative sciences
- logic
- theoretical science
- normativity