ONT Re: Extension x Comprehension = Information
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An off-list correspondent recommends the following assemblage
of publications bearing on the present topic by Chris Hillman:
http://www.math.washington.edu/~hillman/papers.html
The same, by the way, clued me in to the Ghostscript and Ghostview
readers for working with Postscript files, that I did not yet have:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html
Finally, our conversation led to some questions that
bring me to make this note of mid-course explanation:
The crucial thing about Peirce's idea is that it breaks the symmetry
of extension and intension and integrates them within the notion of
information. Apart from all the details of how right he got it,
the Big Picture for us is this: We want to know how theories
change and grow in contact with reality, more than just their
anatomy and physiology, their development and evolution over
the short and the long haul. And we need a framework for
talking about theories, ontological or otherwise, that
empowers us to think about the dynamics of inquiry.
Jon Awbrey
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