Category Archives: Measurement

Re: FB | Medieval Logic • Kollbjorn Oldtheyn • Edward Buckner On the question of which later developments in logic Peirce anticipated, I’ve been more focused on the points where he saw through to features we would not see again … Continue reading →

Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • IBM Conference on the Informational Lens A little bit of history recoded … It may be worth noting the Information Revolution in our understanding of science began in the mid 1860s when C.S. Peirce … Continue reading →

Re: Differential Logic and Dynamic Systems Re: FB | Systems Sciences • Kenneth Lloyd An exchange on Facebook took me back to recent discussions of pragmatic truth and long-running discussions of pragmatic semiotic information.  Just by way of a note … Continue reading →

Re: FB | Peirce Society • John Corcoran To address Was ist und was soll Information sein? in a Peircean context we need to grasp or at least try to grapple with Peirce’s inklings about information.  As it happens, I’ve … Continue reading →

Re: Systems Science • Kent Palmer The best way to get a handle on what Peirce meant by his formula, is to study a suitable sample of critical passages from his Lectures of 1865–1866 on the Logic of Science.  The … Continue reading →

Re: Systems Science • Kent Palmer As a general rule Peirce avoided in advance many of the problems bedeviling later philosophies of science in the 20th Century.  Doing so came rather naturally to him as he rarely succumbed to the … Continue reading →

A Comprehensile Tale Here’s a gloss on “comprehension” I copied from Runes some years ago, plus a bit of commentary I added at the time. Comprehension.  The sum of characteristics which connote a class notion symbolized by a general term.  … Continue reading →

Re: Information = Comprehension × Extension Re: Systems Science • Kent Palmer It may be useful to clear up a couple of technical points about Peirce’s terminology before getting to the main business. Here I’m using extension and intension in … Continue reading →

Re: Survey of Pragmatic Semiotic Information Re: Ontolog Forum • Joseph Simpson I’ve been looking at the record of past discussions and thinking about what I’d like to accomplish this year.  Just off hand, I see a lot of discussion … Continue reading →

Peter Smith, on his Logic Matters blog, queried readers about the type/token distinction and its possible origins before Peirce.  I shared the following observations: It doesn’t help with the question of semiogenesis, which is no doubt lost to the mists … Continue reading →