Cf: Problems In Philosophy • 10 http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/11/07/problems-in-philosophy-10/
Re: Ontolog Forum https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ontolog-forum/xwFwCa0j8qI/overview ::: David Whitten https://groups.google.com/d/msg/ontolog-forum/xwFwCa0j8qI/KAd-jNr_CAAJ DW: Why does classical tradition or any tradition consider logic to be a normative science? Dear David, A science is called that because it deals in knowledge (Latin: "scientia"). Knowing "what is the case" in a given domain of experience may be distinguished from knowing "what ought to be" in a given set of circumstances, and people who think in threes, like Kant and Peirce and me, add knowing "what may be hoped" to the mix. In the quest to understand how science works a praxis/pragmatist like myself gives the process, inquiry, equal billing with the product, knowledge. People have gotten used to seeing sciences as "bodies of ostensible knowledge" (BOOKs) and taking their analysis as a matter of assigning them distinctive catalogue numbers and sorting them to the indicated library shelves. That is all well and good but it leaves an all too static impression of science if we settle for that. Here are capsule summaries on the "Sciences of Is" and the "Sciences of Ought" from the Wikiversity articles on Descriptive Science and Normative Science. Descriptive Science =================== A "descriptive science", or a "special science", is a form of inquiry, typically involving a community of inquiry and its accumulated body of provisional knowledge, which seeks to discover what is true about a recognized domain of phenomena. Normative Science ================= A "normative science" is a form of inquiry, typically involving a community of inquiry and its accumulated body of provisional knowledge, which seeks to discover good ways of achieving recognized aims, ends, goals, objectives, or purposes. The three normative sciences, according to traditional conceptions in philosophy, are aesthetics, ethics, and logic. Resources ========= • Inquiry ( https://oeis.org/wiki/Inquiry ) • Descriptive Science ( https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Descriptive_science ) • Normative Science ( https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Normative_science ) • Prospects for Inquiry Driven Systems ( https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey/Prospects_for_Inquiry_Driven_Systems ) • Logic, Ethics, Aesthetics ( https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey/Prospects_for_Inquiry_Driven_Systems#Logic.2C_Ethics.2C_Aesthetics ) Regards, Jon
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