[Inquiry] Re: Extension x Comprehension = Information

[Jon Awbrey]

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ECI.  Note 32

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| We are now in a condition to discuss the question of the grounds
| of scientific inference.  The problem naturally divides itself
| into parts:  1st To state and prove the principles upon which
| the possibility in general of each kind of inference depends,
| 2nd To state and prove the rules for making inferences in
| particular cases.
|
| The first point I shall discuss in the remainder of this lecture;
| the second I shall scarcely be able to touch upon in these lectures.
|
| Inference in general obviously supposes symbolization;  and all
| symbolization is inference.  For every symbol as we have seen
| contains information.  And in the last lecture we saw that
| all kinds of information involve inference.  Inference,
| then, is symbolization.  They are the same notions.
| Now we have already analyzed the notion of a 'symbol',
| and we have found that it depends upon the possibility
| of representations acquiring a nature, that is to say
| an immediate represenative power.  This principle is
| therefore the ground of inference in general.
|
| CSP, CE 1, pages 279-280.
|
| Charles Sanders Peirce, "On the Logic of Science",
| Harvard University Lectures of 1865, pages 161-302 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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