ONT Re: Extension x Comprehension = Information
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Note 86
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Subtly Subtile Subtitle. The Resistance of the Letter.
Let us persist in investigating the circumstance that the space of symbols
is not combinatorially closed, in other words, that there are combinations
of symbols that are not strictly speaking symbols. Seeing as how symbols
are marked by their "use" -- in the use of which word Peirce is alluding
to Kant and the big idea that the use of an argument, a book, a concept,
a sentence, a work of art, in a word, a symbol, is to reduce a manifold
of sensuous impressions to a unity -- another way to express the facts
of this dis-closure is to say that some combinations of useful usages
are in and of themselves utterly useless. But you knew that already.
The Letter Continues, But Later ...
Jon Awbrey
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