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Full Idea
In Peirce's system, a super-ordinate discipline provides general laws or principles for subordinate disciplines, which in turn provide concrete examples of those general laws.
Gist of Idea
Super-ordinate disciplines give laws or principles; subordinate disciplines give concrete cases
Source
report of Charles Sanders Peirce (works [1892]) by Albert Atkin - Peirce 1 'System'
Book Ref
Atkin,Albert: 'Peirce' [Routledge 2016], p.17
A Reaction
Does he really mean that subordinate disciplines have no principles or laws? That can't be right.