Quote from "Upon Logical Comprehension and Extension"

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Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Informed Breadth’ (pub. 25.11.15-10:32). 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-1.

Term:

Informed Breadth

Quote:

By the informed breadth of a term, I shall mean all the real things of which it is predicable, with logical truth on the whole in a supposed state of information. By the phrase “on the whole” I mean to indicate that all the information at hand must be taken into account, and that those things only of which there is on the whole reason to believe that a term is truly predicable are to be reckoned as part of its breadth.

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 2.407

Date of Quote:

1867

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-upon-logical-comprehension-and-extension-1