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‘Informed Depth’ (pub. 25.11.15-10:26). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-upon-logical-comprehension-and-extension-0.
Term: 
Informed Depth
Quote: 

By the informed depth of a term, I mean all the real characters (in contradistinction to mere names) which can be predicated of it (with logical truth, on the whole) in a supposed state of information, no character being counted twice over knowingly in the supposed state of information. The depth, like the breadth, may be certain or doubtful, actual or potential, and there is a comprehensive distinctness corresponding to extensive distinctness.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1867). Upon Logical Comprehension and Extension. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 7, 416-432.
References: 
W 2:79; CP 2.408
Date of Quote: 
1867
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