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If; , as Hartshorne holds; , logic and ethics; , as well as aesthetics are; , in Peirce's words; "normative sciences/' ," whose rules apply to rational beings; , not to all beings; , as do those of metaphysics; , why couldn't the same thing be said about theology?

On such a view; theology formulates the rules that are normative for rational beings insofar as they think and speak (;;-Ξ think; , say; , and do) concerning God; or the strictly ultimate reality that theistic religions call "God/," in its meaning for us; as distinct from its structure in itself.

But my difficulty with this whole way of thinking and speaking is that metaphysics is; , in its way; , a normative science; , also, as, indeed, is any special science, in its way.

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