Category Archives: Logic of Science

{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Selection 3

Posted on May 20, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Yet there are combinations of words and combinations of conceptions which are not strictly speaking symbols.  These are of two kinds of which I will give you instances.  We have first cases like: man and horse and kangaroo and whale, and … Continue reading →

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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Selection 2

Posted on May 19, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

For this purpose, I must call your attention to the differences there are in the manner in which different representations stand for their objects. In the first place there are likenesses or copies — such as statues, pictures, emblems, hieroglyphics, … Continue reading →

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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Selection 1

Posted on May 19, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Let us now return to the information.  The information of a term is the measure of its superfluous comprehension.  That is to say that the proper office of the comprehension is to determine the extension of the term.  For instance, … Continue reading →

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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension }

Posted on May 18, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Another angle from which to approach the incidence of signs and inquiry is by way of Charles S. Peirce’s “laws of information” and the corresponding theory of information he developed from the time of his lectures on the “Logic of Science” at … Continue reading →

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Definition and Determination • 14

Posted on May 5, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List (1) (2) I’ve been trying to sort through the explosion of topics and tangents that have arisen over the past month — disruptions in my actual and virtual office spaces have made it hard for me to … Continue reading →

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Types of Reasoning in C.S. Peirce and Aristotle • 2

Posted on April 28, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion • Ben Udell • Gary Richmond Present business has kept me from following much of the recent discussion on Peirce’s three types of reasoning, but we have been down this road before and so old tunes … Continue reading →

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Types of Reasoning in C.S. Peirce and Aristotle • 1

Posted on April 26, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List Discussion In one of his earliest treatments of the three types of reasoning, from his Harvard Lectures “On the Logic of Science” (1865), Peirce gives an example that illustrates how one and the same proposition might be … Continue reading →

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Definition and Determination • 13

Posted on April 15, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List (1) (2) Re: Jerry Rhee (1) (2) Verbal acrobatics can get a person only so far, even for a high-wire act like C.S. Peirce, and all the great failures to launch I’ve seen pragmatism and semiotics suffer from … Continue reading →

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Definition and Determination • 12

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List (1) (2) Re: Jerry Rhee, quoting Peirce (1) (2) The surprising fact, C, is observed; But if A were true, C would be a matter of course, Hence, there is reason to suspect that A is true.  … Continue reading →

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Definition and Determination • 11

Posted on April 4, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List (1) (2) Re: Gary Fuhrman (1) (2) Re: Jeffrey Downard (1) (2) The subject of determination comes up from time to time.  Here is a link to an assortment of excerpts I collected when I was first … Continue reading →

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