ONT Re: Extension x Comprehension = Information
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Doug,
At first I thought that maybe you were just heckling me
for the shear fun of it, but a second or third reading
tells me that probably some further explanation is due.
The reason that I am going through these texts of Peirce's
Harvard & Lowell Lectures is that they record some of his
earliest recorded thinking on the concept of information,
and how that relates to the nature of scientific inquiry,
including the light that it helps to throw on the issues
of hypothetical and inductive inference, and all this is
over and above his consideration of the underlying kinds
of signs that are invoked in all sorts of communication,
whether it's the discourse between persons or some form
of communing with Nature that's the patter in question.
Needless to say, it's a pretty heady brew to try and take in,
especially in drafts as rough as these, but for all of their
occasional obscurities, these precocious studies manage to
preserve precious details of how Peirce's thought actually
developed over time, the likes which finer points we do
not always see again, as they tend to get abbreviated
or even skipped altogether on the very next passes
over this same material.
If you seek a better zoology, there are plenty elsewhere.
It is the anatomy of inquiry that's under the glass here.
Jon Awbrey
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