On 6/28/2017 1:44 PM, Jon Awbrey wrote:
The short shrift for now is that neither Peirce nor I is talking about
propositions in the sense of dicisigns or dicent symbols at this juncture
but rather the simpler sorts of propositions that fall under the heading
of the Propositional Calculus in current usage, adequately and most
felicitously dealt with of course by means of Peirce's own Alpha Graphs.
There is no difference. A proposition (or dicisign or dicent symbol)
is a proposition, no matter how it is used. In propositional calculus
or Peirce's Alpha, the letter p can represent any proposition or
dicisign or dicent symbol of any kind.
The concept of information that comes up in this context is rather distinct.
Yes. Information is propositional content that is being communicated
to someone in some way. As an employee of AT&T, Claude Shannon focused
on the transmission methods. But he did not reject the fact that the
people who use a telephone communicate propositional content.
The terms 'comprehension' and 'extension' address the propositional
content, not the method of communication.
John
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