ONT Extension x Comprehension = Information
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This is another one of those topics that keeps
coming back to mind, but that I've always had
trouble staying focussed on for very long.
When it comes to the supposed reciprocity
between extensions and intensions, Peirce,
of course, has another idea, and I would
say a better idea, in part, because it
forms the occasion when he brings in
his new-fangled notion of "information"
to mediate the negotiations of the mutual
claims that are imposed on each other by
the other two parties to the transaction.
This development of this novel idea leads
Peirce in time to enuniciate this formula:
Extension x Comprehension = Information.
But comprehending what in the world that might mean
is a much longer story, the end of which your present
teller has yet to reach. So, this time around, I will
take up the story near the end of the beginning of the
author's own telling of it, for no better reason than
that's where I myself initially came in, or, at least,
where it all started making any kind of sense to me.
And from this point we will find it easy enough to
flash both backward and forward, to and fro,
as the occasions arise for doing so.
Until Then,
Jon Awbrey
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