Stricture, Strait, Constraint, Information, Complexity

Within the framework of a particular discussion, it is customary to set a bound on the number of places and to limit the variety of sets regarded as being under active consideration and it is further convenient to index the places of the indicated relations and their encompassing cartesian products in some fixed way.

But the whole idea of a stricture is to specify a strait capable of extending through and beyond fixed frames of discussion.  In other words, a stricture is conceived to constrain a strait at a certain point and then to leave it literally embedded, if tacitly expressed, in a yet to be fully specified relation, one involving an unspecified number of unspecified domains.

A quantity of information is a measure of constraint.  In that respect, a set of comparable strictures is ordered on account of the information each one conveys and a system of comparable straits is ordered in accord with the amount of information it takes to pin each one down.

Strictures which are more constraining and straits which are more constrained are placed at higher levels of information than those which are less so and entities involving more information are said to have greater complexity than entities involving less information, which are said to have greater simplicity.

Resources

• Cactus Language • Pragmatics
• Survey of Animated Logical Graphs
• Survey of Theme One Program

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