The esthetic grounding of ordered thought

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. © Springer-Verlag 2004.