[Inquiry] Re: Extension x Comprehension = Information

[Jon Awbrey]

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ECI.  Anthematic Note 3

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| A certain child who is rather backward in learning to speak, --
| not from dullness, but from a want of aptitude in imitating
| the words which it hears, -- has got to use three words only;
| and what are these?  'Name', 'story', and 'matter'.  He says
| 'name' when he wishes to know the name of a person or thing;
| 'story' when he wishes to hear a narration or description;
| and 'matter' -- a highly abstract and philosophical term --
| when he wishes to be acquainted with the cause of anything.
| 'Name', 'story', and 'matter', therefore, make the foundation
| of this child's philosophy.  What a wonderful thing that his
| individuality should have been shown so strongly, at that age,
| in selecting those three words out of all the equally common
| ones which he heard about him.  Already he has made his list
| of categories, which is the principal part of any philosophy.
|
| CSP, CE 1, page 501.
|
| Charles Sanders Peirce,
|"The Logic of Science, or, Induction and Hypothesis",
| Lowell Institute Lectures of 1866, pages 357-504 in:
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|'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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