[Inquiry] Extension x Comprehension = Information

[Jon Awbrey]

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ECI.  Note 1

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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 for him to bring in his new-fangled notion of
"information" to mediate the otherwise static dualism between the other two.
The development of this novel idea brings Peirce to enunciate 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.

Jon Awbrey

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