ONT Re: Information = Comprehension x Extension -- Discussion
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ICE. Discussion Note 50
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There's a reason why the issues that Antti Karttunen raised about
particulars and properties and the issues that Jack Park raised
about subjects and topics came together in my mind to remind
me of the issues that Charles Sanders Peirce raised about
the interrelations of information, logic, and signs.
At least, I think there is.
The connection seems to be that they all have to do with this question:
| If we know something K_1 about a bunch of things X_1
| and we know something K_2 about a bunch of things X_2,
| will we know something K_3 about a bunch of things X_3?
I have deliberately left some wiggle-room in the question
for who exactly gets to specify the items of knowledge and
the bunches of things in question, but that is basically it.
I will make a determined effort to focus on this question from here on out.
In fact, come to think of it, let me dub this the "question of determination" (QUOD).
QV: Determination. http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/thrd59.html#02377
Jon Awbrey
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