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Type: 
Manuscript
Author: 
Peirce, Charles Sanders
Title: 
On the Classification of the Sciences
Manuscript Id: 
MS [R] 1345
Year: 
1896 [c.]
Abstract / Description: 

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 36 pp.; plus 3 pp. (“Synopsis of Logic. Chapter I. The Place of Philosophy among the Sciences”) and 4 pp. (“Chapter I. Of the Place of Philosophy among the Sciences”).
Threefold division of mathematics, empirics and pragmatics. Mathematics as the study of ideal forms or constructions; empirics as the study of phenomena for the purpose of correlating their forms with those studied by mathematics; pragmatics as the study of how we ought to behave in light of the truths of experience derived from empirics. The subdivision of empirics into philosophy, nomology, and episcopy. The subdivision of pragmatics into ethics, arts, and policy.

Language: 
English