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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.
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Parker, K. (2004). The Esthetic Grounding of Ordered Thought. In: Wolff, K.E., Pfeiffer, H.D., Delugach, H.S. (eds) Conceptual Structures at Work. ICCS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3127. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27769-9_1
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