ONT Re: Extension x Comprehension = Information
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from runes --
| comprehension = the sum of characteristics
| which connote a class notion symbolized by
| a general term. also, the features common
| to a number of instances or objects. thus,
| the 'connotation' (qv) or 'intension' (qv)
| of a concept. -- otto f. kraushaar.
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more time now ...
i had the impression that peirce's usage was conforming to some standard tradition,
scholastic or kantian or both, but have not taken the time to trace it -- i imagine
that somebody hereabouts would probably have it on the tip of their tongue, anyways.
my affliction with OSSD (obsessive syntactic symmetry disorder) made it difficult
for me to switch from the equal temperaments of extension/intension, but i have
the sense that peirce is making a technical distinction between "an intension",
as being any one property of an object of a concept, and "the comprehension",
as being the collection or the conjunction of "all" of the properties of the
object that are relevant to some context of discussion. but that is just
my unchecked sense of what he's saying, and i'm still just guessing.
so i went with kraushaar, as he seems to cover the kantian line.
and there's always a chance that runes is derivative of peirce,
via the century dictionary and other sources like that.
detective work needed here.
jon awbrey
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