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> On Jul 26, 2018, at 4:21 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt <jonalanschm...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> For normative science in general being the science of the laws of conformity 
> of things to ends, esthetics considers those things whose ends are to embody 
> qualities of feeling, ethics those things whose ends lie in action, and logic 
> those things whose end is to represent something. (CP 5.121-124&129, EP 
> 2:196-197&200; 1903) (my emphasis of phrase.)

This is, perhaps, the most remarkable characterization of logic I have ever 
read!

In particular, one might compare this definition with the descriptions of set 
theory and the predicate logic of mathematics.  

Cheers

Jerry


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