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For it is the bad that is the positive idea, and the good
is merely that from which the bad is absent. I am
not saying that this is so in general, but it is so from the
point of view of the normative sciences. The right is
the matter of course; the wrong is the marked
phe character. The dualistic character of the
normative sciences must not be exaggerated. It is
not that they are occupied with nothing else, but that
this sort of distinction occurs in these sciences at all
which distinguishes them from all other sciences. It is
more prominent in ethics than in the other two; and
the words pairs of words good & bad; right and wrong, and the like
if used without qualification will be apt to be understood
as marking the ethical distinction