[Inquiry] Re: Extension x Comprehension = Information

[Jon Awbrey]

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ECI.  Note 34

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| But these three principles must have this in common that they refer to
| 'symbolization' for they are principles of inference which is symbolization.
| As grounds of the possibility of inference they must refer to the possibility
| of symbolization or symbolizability.  And as logical principles they must relate
| to the reference of symbols to objects;  for logic has been defined as the science
| of the general conditions of the relations of symbols to objects.  But as three
| different principles they must state three different relations of symbols
| to objects.  Now we have already found that a symbol has three different
| relations of objects; namely connotation, denotation, and information
| which are its relations to the object considered as a thing, a form,
| and an equivalent representation.  Hence, it is obvious that these
| three principles must relate to the symbolizability of things, of
| forms, and of symbols.
|
| Our next business is to find which is which.
|
| CSP, CE 1, pages 280-281.
|
| 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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