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Term: 
Ethics
Quote: 

Ethics is that normative science which studies the conditions of that excellence which may or may not belong to voluntary action in its relation to its purpose.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1904). Reason's Conscience: A Practical Treatise on the Theory of Discovery; Wherein logic is conceived as Semeiotic. MS [R] 693.
References: 
NEM 4:192; HP 2:826
Date of Quote: 
1904
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