Tag Archives: Information = Comprehension × Extension

{ 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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Readings On Determination • Discussion 3

Posted on April 23, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Readings On Determination • 1 I keep coming back to Peirce’s early lectures on the logic of science because we see there the first inklings of his prospective theory of information, one of those ideas whose time was ripe … Continue reading →

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Readings On Determination • 1

Posted on April 22, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List (1) (2) The concepts of definition and determination converge in their concern for setting bounds to the point where they coincide at a certain level of abstraction.  One avenue of approach to determination may then begin from a consideration … Continue reading →

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Readings On Determination • Discussion 2

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List (1) (2) Re: Jeffrey Downard (1) (2) (3) Having been through this same discussion on many previous occasions I’ll try to sum up the more persistent confusions never ceasing to bedevil the subject.  Most of these arise from … Continue reading →

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Readings On Determination • Discussion 1

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List (1) (2) What I’m really after here has to do with the way a certain concept of determination figures into Peirce’s better definitions of a sign relation — “better” meaning definitions strong enough to bear the load … 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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Readings On Determination

Posted on April 11, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

This is an anchor post for a set of readings on determination, focusing on the census of senses Peirce employed in his pragmatic approach to information, inquiry, science, and signs with a pinch of readings from other writers for historical … Continue reading →

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