This criteriological or normative aspect is what distinguishes the sciences of mind from the sciences of nature, which are said to be descriptive rather than normative.
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Eidetic reduction, the more subjective (creative and risk-oriented) stage of eidetic analysis, operates without undisciplined subjectivism only through its criteriological principle.
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This is the criteriological view of the development of an understanding of other minds. The criteriological view is summarized by Montgomery as follows: Wittgenstein's argument [is] that the presence of criteria is necessary for teaching the meanings of various mental state terms to children and, also, for then gauging children's correct use of these terms. Children use the criteria to conceptualize the mental state and to infer its presence or absence.
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