[Inquiry] Re: Peirce's Logic Of Information -- Discussion

[Jon Awbrey]

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PLOI.  Discussion Note 2

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TG = Tom Gollier

Re: PLOI-DIS 1.  http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-December/003280.html
In: PLOI-DIS.    http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-December/thread.html#3280

Tom, Peirce List,

It eventually hit me what you were saying, I think, with the picture that you drew.
If I catch your drift, you're casting "Color" as a function (or a "partial function",
not always defined for every input) from a domain of things like {A, B, C, ...} to a
co-domain of things like {..., Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet, ...}.
This is certainly a construct that would be worth exploring for its own sake, but it's
a little higher up on the scale of complexity than I'm presently contemplating, in my
razor-like ockhamish way.  We'll have to think about whether we can call, and whether
Peirce might have had in mind calling the function Color : Points -> Paints a part of
the comprehension of things like 'A' and things like 'Red'.  But I can see how that
might be possible, just at first sight.  Still, I will have to plod along with the
simpler interpretations first, until I can't see any way to make sense of them.

Jon Awbrey

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