List: > 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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