[PEIRCE-L] Aw: Re: Thoughts On Normative Sciences

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 14:01:55 -0800

Dear Jon, Stefan, list
Jon, you understand german? well, i still think, that these rules of inferment or logic are objects of scientific inquiry or investigation. So it is not the science itself, that is normative, but it is the rules, discovered by science, that are- but their normativity is their own innate normativity, which has existed before there was any science- So it is not the science, that is normative. Science does not create norms, it only discovers them. So it is not normative. And: The discovered norms are only scientifically regarded  as such as long as there are not norms discovered, that make the old norms be a subset of more general norms: Like Newtonian formulas are only a special case of Einsteinian formulas: Only valid at velocities much much slower than light velocity. Same might be in culture: The law not to eat pig meat is a special case of the laws how to take certain measures to avoid trichotomia or salmonella infection by pig- and other meat. So, norms are not a matter of science, i think, but merely spin-off-effects, perceived mostly by people, who are not scientists, or by scientists in their leisure time. 
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