Monthly Archives: June 2026

Information = Comprehension × Extension • Selection 1

I am going to begin with six selections from Peirce’s Lectures of 1866 where he addressess, among other things, the roles of signs informing sign relations and their connection with rules of inference guiding inquiries. ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ Our first … Continue reading

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Information = Comprehension × Extension • Preamble

Perhaps the best perspective from which to bring the connection between the theory of signs and the theory of inquiry into its proper focus is Peirce’s own Theory of Information, which he began setting forth in lectures at Harvard and … Continue reading

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Icon, Likeness, Likely Story, Likelihood, Probability • 4

Re: Icon, Likeness, Likely Story, Likelihood, Probability • 3 Re: Laws of Form • Lyle Anderson Lyle, We are engaged in the wider context of which Peirce’s systems of graphs for propositional logic and Spencer Brown’s calculus of indications constitute … Continue reading

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