[Arisbe] Re: Inquiry Into Information

[Jon Awbrey]

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| But these three principles must have this in common that they refer to 'symbolization'
| for they are principles of inference which is symbolization.  As grounds of the
| possibility of inference they must refer to the possibility of symbolization or
| symbolizability.  And as logical principles they must relate to the reference
| of symbols to objects;  for logic has been defined as the science of the
| general conditions of the relations of symbols to objects.  But as three
| different principles they must state three different relations of
| symbols to objects.  Now we already found that a symbol has three
| different relations to objects;  namely, connotation, denotation,
| and information, which are its relations to the object considered
| as a thing, a form, and an equivalent representation.  Hence,
| it is obvious that these three principles must relate to
| the symbolizability of things, of forms, and of symbols.
|
| CSP, CE 1, pages 280-281.
|
| Charles Sanders Peirce, "Harvard Lectures 'On the Logic of Science'", (1865),
|'Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Volume 1, 1857-1866',
| Peirce Edition Project, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1982.

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