Quote from "Reason's Conscience: A Practical Treatise on the Theory of Discovery; Wherein logic is conceived as Semeiotic"

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Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Logic’ (pub. 07.08.16-17:18). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-reasons-conscience-practical-treatise-theory-discovery-wherein-logic-15.

Term:

Logic

Quote:

Logic is that branch of normative science which studies the conditions of truth, or that kind of excellence which may or may not belong to objects considered as representing real objects.

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…logic, as a normative science, entirely disregards what the particular state of things may be, and undertakes [to] show what procedure must lead to the discovery of truth, whatever that truth may be.

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 4:192-4; HP 2:826-8

Date of Quote:

1904

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-reasons-conscience-practical-treatise-theory-discovery-wherein-logic-15