The esthetic grounding of ordered thought

Kelly Parker

pp. 1-16

in: Karl E. Wolff, Heather D. Pfeiffer, Harry Delugach (eds), Conceptual structures at work, Berlin, Springer, 2004

Abstract

In Peirce's account of the normative sciences, logical validity and truth ultimately rely upon – though they are not reduced to – ethical and esthetic insight. An examination of the relations among critical esthetics, ethics and logic in Peirce's system suggests a possible account of the logic of creative discovery, which Peirce identified as abductive inference.

Cited authors

Peirce Charles Sanders