Logic
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or the determination of what under given circumstances ought to or may be done. They have been largely busied with the analysis of conscience, which as a psychological problem, mainly, belongs among the special psychical sciences. But the more important subject of their deliverations has been, What is good? Now this is hardly a normative question: it is pre-normative. It does not ask for the conditions of fulfillment of a definitely accepted purpose, but asks what is to be sought, nor for a reason, but lack of every reason. Logic as a true normative science, supposes the questions of what is to be aimed at to be already answered before it could itself have been called into being. Pure ethics, philosophical ethics, is not normative, but prenormative. "If so only this chapter?' I fear the reader will ask, and [forth?] [with?] skip and [surplus?] age, the true life [germ?] of all the truths I have to unfold. "Nevermind,"
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