[Inquiry] Re: Extension x Comprehension = Information

[Jon Awbrey]

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ECI.  Note 41

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| There are certain pseudo-symbols which are formed by combinations
| of symbols, and which must therefore be considered in logic, which
| lack either denotation or connotation.  Thus, 'cats and stoves' is a
| symbol wanting in connotation because it does not purport to relate to
| any definite quality.  'Tailed men' wants denotation;  for though it
| implies that there are men and that there are tailed things, it does
| not deny that these classes are mutually exclusive.  All such terms
| are totally wanting in 'information'.
|
| In short the formula
|
| Connotation x Denotation = Information
|
| holds good thoroughly.
|
| CSP, CE 1, page 288.
|
| Charles Sanders Peirce, "On the Logic of Science",
| Harvard University Lectures of 1865, pages 161-302 in:
|
|'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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