Logic as a Normative Science: Peirce’s Reasons
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In this paper, I will present the main reasons that Charles Sanders Peirce had for considering logic as a normative science. I have divided this work into two sections. The first is dedicated to discuss the place that, according to Peirce, logic occupies in the “map of sciences”, and in it I present the reasons for Peirce’s (logical) anti-exceptionalism and for the relevance of a classification of the sciences. The second section is dedicated to the description of the main reasons of the American philosopher for considering logic as a normative science, paying particular attention to what, according to Peirce, is the central problem of logic and to his reasons why reasoning is deliberative.
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