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Logic IV.2.

conceptions of a normative science there still remains.

Some authors make the three normative branches of philsophy to be esthetics, ethics, and logic; but more usually, the first of these is omitted.
I do not see that this qustion particularly concerns us: perhaps I have not sufficiently studied the relation of logic to esthetics.
But it seems to me to be more questionable whether ethics ought to be regarded as a normative branch of philosophy.
The doctrne of rights and duties I should incline to call practical, rather than normative; but, however that may be, it seems to be clearly not a bramch of philosophy, if we are to use that word, as I do, to mean that past of science which rests upon so much of experience as presses in upon every man during ever hour of his waking life.
On the contrary to understand my rights and duties, I stand in need of wisdom, or the knowledge

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