ONT Re: Extension x Comprehension = Information
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| The Critique Of Pure Reason
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| Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
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| Translated by J.M.D. Meiklejohn
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| Preface to the First Edition, 1781
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| Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition,
| is called upon to consider questions, which
| it cannot decline, as they are presented by
| its own nature, but which it cannot answer,
| as they transcend every faculty of the mind.
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| It falls into this difficulty without any fault of its own.
| It begins with principles, which cannot be dispensed with in
| the field of experience, and the truth and sufficiency of which
| are, at the same time, insured by experience. With these principles
| it rises, in obedience to the laws of its own nature, to ever higher
| and more remote conditions. But it quickly discovers that, in this way,
| its labours must remain ever incomplete, because new questions never cease
| to present themselves; and thus it finds itself compelled to have recourse
| to principles which transcend the region of experience, while they are regarded
| by common sense without distrust. It thus falls into confusion and contradictions,
| from which it conjectures the presence of latent errors, which, however, it is unable
| to discover, because the principles it employs, transcending the limits of experience,
| cannot be tested by that criterion. The arena of these endless contests is called
| Metaphysic.
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| http://www.philosophy.ru/library/kant/01/cr_pure_reason.html
Sphere Knot -- Peirce to the Rescue!
Jon Awbrey
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