The Commens Dictionary

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

Quote: 

Normative science is that science which considers any kind of excellence, and endeavors to formulate the conditions under which an object would possess that excellence, without undertaking to say whether given objects possess that excellence or not.

Date: 
1904
References: 
NEM 4:192; HP 2:825
Citation: 
‘Normative Science’ (pub. 07.08.16-16:48). 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-9.
Posted: 
Aug 07, 2016, 16:48 by Mats Bergman