ONT Re: Extension x Comprehension = Information
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ECI. Anthematic Note 2
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| That the idiosyncrasy of a man -- his peculiar character --
| is his peculiar philosophy, is best seen in the earliest stages
| of its formation before those complications have been developed
| which render it difficult to seize upon it. The cunning speeches
| of children just as they begin to talk often startle one by their
| philosophical nature. The drawer of 'Harper's Magazine' has been
| filled for years with the sayings of "our three year old" -- who
| seems blessed with perennial three-year-old-ness -- but if all
| these stories are true, they are very valuable as showing the
| character of the childish mind in general, and particularly
| the philosophical tendencies of children. I shall not trouble
| you with the recitation of any of these funny stories -- they
| are stale and therefore flat; but I will mention a case, which
| has nothing laughable in it -- but which illustrates remarkably
| well how the peculiar differences of men are differences of
| philosophian method.
|
| CSP, CE 1, page 501.
|
| Charles Sanders Peirce,
|"The Logic of Science, or, Induction and Hypothesis",
| Lowell Institute Lectures of 1866, pages 357-504 in:
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|'Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition',
|'Volume 1, 1857-1866', Peirce Edition Project,
| Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1982.
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