[Inquiry] Re: Extension x Comprehension = Information

[Jon Awbrey]

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ECI.  Note 13

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| The highest terms are therefore broadest and
| the lowest terms the narrowest.  We can take
| a term so broad that it contains all other
| spheres under it.  Then it will have no
| content whatever.  There is but one
| such term -- with its synonyms --
| it is 'Being'.  We can also take a
| term so low that it contains all other
| content within it.  Then it will have no
| sphere whatever.  There is but one such term --
| it is 'Nothing'.
|
| o------------------------o------------------------o
| |                        |                        |
| |  Being                 |  Nothing               |
| |                        |                        |
| |  All breadth           |  All depth             |
| |                        |                        |
| |  No depth              |  No breadth            |
| |                        |                        |
| o------------------------o------------------------o
|
| We can conceive of terms so narrow that they are next to nothing,
| that is have an absolutely individual sphere.  Such terms would be
| innumerable in number.  We can also conceive of terms so high that
| they are next to 'being', that is have an entirely simple content.
| Such terms would also be innumerable.
|
| o------------------------o------------------------o
| |                        |                        |
| |  Simple terms          |  Individual terms      |
| |                        |                        |
| o------------------------o------------------------o
|
| CSP, CE 1, page 460.
|
| Charles Sanders Peirce,
|"The Logic of Science, or, Induction and Hypothesis",
| Lowell Institute Lectures of 1866, pages 357-504 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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