The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Reason's Conscience: A Practical Treatise on the Theory of Discovery; Wherein logic is conceived as Semeiotic’

Term: 
Esthetics
Quote: 

Esthetics is that normative science which studies the conditions of that kind of excellence which objects may possess in their presentation, or appearance, regardless of their relations.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1904). Reason's Conscience: A Practical Treatise on the Theory of Discovery; Wherein logic is conceived as Semeiotic. MS [R] 693
Date: 
1904
References: 
NEM 4:192; HP 2:826
Citation: 
‘Esthetics’ (pub. 07.08.16-17:14). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-reasons-conscience-practical-treatise-theory-discovery-wherein-logic-13.
Posted: 
Aug 07, 2016, 17:14 by Mats Bergman