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Departing from Anderson’s (2016) suggestion that there are three communities in Peirce’s thought corresponding to his three normative sciences of logic, ethics, and esthetics, I argue that these communities partake in a relationship of dependence similar to that found among the normative sciences. In this way, just as logic relies on ethics which relies on esthetics, so too would a logical community of inquirers rely on an ethical community of love, which would rely on an esthetic community of artists. A community could conduct inquiry together only if it pursued the same goal; and it could pursue the same goal only if it first imaginatively construed it. Any logical or ethical community requires a shared imaginative repertoire of ideal ends.
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TRANSACTIONS OF THE CHARLES S. PEIRCE SOCIETY
  

Peirces
Imaginative
Community:
On the
Esthetic
Grounds of
Inquiry
Bernardo Andrade
Abstract
    -
     
     
     
      -
      -
      


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    
   -


       
      


Keywords: Charles S. Peirce, Esthetics,
Community, Imagination, Normative
Sciences.
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  1    
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    
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  

in community

-
        
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1. e Place of Esthetics in the Normative Sciences
         


-





-


ought to think
ought to do
kind


     
de gustibus
non est disputandum
Peirce’s Imaginative Community: On the Esthetic Grounds of Inquiry Bernardo Andrade
  
         
-








      

magnum opus
e Minute Logic



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e Minute Logic
groundvalidates
why
        
sound
    

If then
        
-
why





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   


       
-

lovable
TRANSACTIONS Volume 58 Number 1
com-
mand    
  
feeling

-
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   



phenomenologymetaphys-
ics-

rstness (EP


thirdness

secondness


evaluative
more
 

-






-
feel-
ingaction
    represent     
-

rst
second-
    
third

in general
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Peirce’s Imaginative Community: On the Esthetic Grounds of Inquiry Bernardo Andrade
in its rstness-
in its secondnessits thirdness

 -
 
        

           -
-
        
 
 
-

-
[]


exactly
          


    


      -
 

collectively

esthetic
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2. e Criteria for Esthetic Goodness





-

destined
reasonable
feeling

TRANSACTIONS Volume 58 Number 1


-
-
      
       
    

-
           
feeling



-


-

          
-
poetic
beautyadmirableness
-


           


any    
    
         


   



anything

-




Peirce’s Imaginative Community: On the Esthetic Grounds of Inquiry Bernardo Andrade

      

normativity 

          
from the start
    community 
     

       



-


  


   

     
-
before
afterindividual
collective
5

   -



3. Peirce’s ree Communities

-
community

not

-



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 

        
   -

-


-
-
        
sciences    ends       
communities

      

         
-
    
  
      


          -


-


3.1 e Community of Inquirers, or of irdness
         
     -



-
   
          -

 

 -
          
Peirce’s Imaginative Community: On the Esthetic Grounds of Inquiry Bernardo Andrade
    
        community  

from the start-



3.2 e Community of Love, or of Secondness

   
second

        



-



      





cannot
         


-

-
           



           

  
-

 
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



            

 already    
         
            
      
        
          
imaginatively share inclusive ideals
  
third


3.3 e Community of Artists, or of Firstness


-
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
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
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Peirce’s Imaginative Community: On the Esthetic Grounds of Inquiry Bernardo Andrade
-
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
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
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
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

-
   






creativenew
certain
probable

admirable.
       



-
per se






-



  Critique of Judgment 
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         
-


create


      
technically 
artistically schemati-
cally
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
technefree-

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

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new
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  
    
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  
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munity 

         -
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Peirce’s Imaginative Community: On the Esthetic Grounds of Inquiry Bernardo Andrade
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-
-


-

    

         
guiltCrime and Punishment
    

-
-




consensus


    
-

 


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




    
  -




not-
       


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




not


-
 
   
  -

admirable




  
-



logically implied
4. e Imaginative Community as Ground of Normativity



-
if
  choose
worthy
 -

pos-
sibility, feasibility  necessity 
worthy

ought
can
necessary-

   

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Peirce’s Imaginative Community: On the Esthetic Grounds of Inquiry Bernardo Andrade
-


possibility.
      
-

    
          
  
-






ideal
possible     actual 
achievablenecessary-


           -
 
community
-

      

          
  



        
-

in common
   -


-

    

TRANSACTIONS Volume 58 Number 1
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-

-
          

  per se       

-


-

content


-
phantasia).
 De Anima-
 phantasmata

aisthesisdianoia


De An
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
-


in fact-







-
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
     
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Peirce’s Imaginative Community: On the Esthetic Grounds of Inquiry Bernardo Andrade
pos-
sibilitiesfeasible
   
     
-





community,





numerically-
 conceptually -
            
    
    

separatethey
per se


 


also

      





-



-
  
 
correct
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
     


ground-
fundamentum inconcussum à

        



Conclusion
           




hypothetically necessary

   
admirable      

 feeling  per se,
-


 


-
ground
nothing
   



per se

   in common 
   

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
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Peirce’s Imaginative Community: On the Esthetic Grounds of Inquiry Bernardo Andrade
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Charles S. Peirce Society
Cognitio

  
Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society

Critique of the Power of JudgmentCognitio
European
Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy
   Logic as the Science of the Pure Concept  

      
      

    
Cognitio
          
Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society

   Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society  

   Critique of the Power of Judgment    

        Transactions of the
Charles S. Peirce Society
  Charles S. Peirce: Logic and the Classication of the Sciences.

Cognitio,

Charles Peirce on Ethics, Esthetics and the Normative Sciences

       Transactions of the
Charles S. Peirce Society
  Transactions of the
Charles S. Peirce Society

e Normative ought of Charles S. Peirce,

  Cognitio 

e Collected Papers of Charles S. Peirce


Contributions to the Nation

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 Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition


e Essential Peirce

   Charles S. Peirce on Norms and Ideals

         
Peirce and Value
eory: On Peircean Ethics and Aesthetics
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NOTES
    


 e Essential Peirce
Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce,
           Writings of
Charles S. Peirce 
Contributions to the Nation
 -

Science
    -
            
            

 


            

  
-

 feasible

   
realizability
cannot

 order of priority



-
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Peirce’s Imaginative Community: On the Esthetic Grounds of Inquiry Bernardo Andrade



invertfoun-
dation-





 -

 
-

-
phantasia
   and      
(aisthesisdianoia

phantasiasimply

   bi-directional   


-
-
  post factum   
         






 

 -
    


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... External orientation openness refers to the borderless nature of the community, that is, it can be open to other communities and accommodate the knowledge elements of others, thereby ensuring its own survival and development. Throughout the development of the community of inquiry, democratic communities (McBride 2009), scientific communities (Klein 2013), and aesthetic-based imaginative communities (Andrade 2022) can establish relationships of mutual absorption while ensuring their own existence, thus constructing a complete human society. Liszka has pointed out that Peirce attempted to elucidate the social structure of scientific theoretical activity through the concept of community, a structure that is consistent with specific social demands (Liszka 1978). ...
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