Descriptive Science   

Descriptive Science

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    Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce
    Descriptive Science
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    1905-06 [c.] | Monist [R] | MS [R] 1338:9

    …the Descriptive Sciences […] study individual events and individually existent objects, seeking, first, to describe them minutely, and then to explain how they come to have the described peculiarities.
    Citation
    ‘Descriptive Science’. Term 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/term/descriptive-science, 06.12.2017.
    See also
    Nomology | Idioscopy | Classificatory Science