Logic Of Information

Let us now return to the information. The information of a term is the measure of its superfluous Comprehension . That is to say that the proper office of the comprehension is to determine the Extension of the term. For instance, you and I are men because we possess those attributes — having two legs, being rational, &tc. — which make up the comprehension of ''man''. Every addition to the comprehension of a term lessens its extension up to a certain point, after that further additions increase the information instead. (C.S. Peirce, "The Logic Of Science , or, Induction and Hypothesis " (1866), CE 1, 467).

• Charles Peirce (Bibliography)


• Information Theory


• Semiotic Information Theory

• Peirce, C.S. (1867), "Upon Logical Comprehension and Extension", Eprint