[Inquiry] Re: Extension x Comprehension = Information

[Jon Awbrey]

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ECI.  Note 14

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| But such terms though conceivable in one sense --
| that is intelligible in their conditions --
| are yet impossible.
| You never can narrow down to an individual.
| Do you say Daniel Webster is an individual?
| He is so in common parlance,
| but in logical strictness he is not.
| We think of certain images in our memory --
| a platform and a noble form uttering convincing and patriotic words --
| a statue --
| certain printed matter --
| and we say that which
| that speaker and the
| man whom that statue
| was taken for and the
| writer of this speech --
| that which these are in
| common is Daniel Webster.
| Thus, even the proper name
| of a man is a general term or
| the name of a class, for it names
| a class of sensations and thoughts.
| The true individual term the absolutely
| singular 'this' & 'that' cannot be reached.
| Whatever has comprehension must be general.
|
| CSP, CE 1, page 461.
|
| 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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