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| Here, the order of relational composition flows up the page. For convenience, the absolute term ''f'' = "frenchman" has been converted by using the comma functor to give the idempotent representation ‘''f''’ = ''f'', = "frenchman that is ---", and thus it can be taken as a selective from the universe of mankind. | | Here, the order of relational composition flows up the page. For convenience, the absolute term ''f'' = "frenchman" has been converted by using the comma functor to give the idempotent representation ‘''f''’ = ''f'', = "frenchman that is ---", and thus it can be taken as a selective from the universe of mankind. |
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− | <pre>
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| By way of a legend for the figure, we have the following data: | | By way of a legend for the figure, we have the following data: |
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| + | <pre> |
| | m = J +, K +, L +, M = 1 | | | m = J +, K +, L +, M = 1 |
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| | (T_065 +, ... +, T_096):L +, | | | (T_065 +, ... +, T_096):L +, |
| | (T_097 +, ... +, T_128):M | | | (T_097 +, ... +, T_128):M |
| + | </pre> |
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| + | Now let's see if we can use this picture to make sense of the following statement: |
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| + | <blockquote> |
| + | <p>For instance, if our universe is perfect men, and there are as many teeth to a Frenchman (perfect understood) as there are to any one of the universe, then:</p> |
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− | Now let's see if we can use this picture
| + | : <p>[''t''][''f''] = [''tf'']</p> |
− | to make sense of the following statement:
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− | | For instance, if our universe is perfect men, and there
| + | <p>holds arithmetically. (CP 3.76).</p> |
− | | are as many teeth to a Frenchman (perfect understood)
| + | </blockquote> |
− | | as there are to any one of the universe, then:
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− | | ['t'][f] = ['t'f]
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− | | holds arithmetically. (CP 3.76).
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− | In the lingua franca of statistics, Peirce is saying this: | + | In the lingua franca of statistics, Peirce is saying this: That if the population of Frenchmen is a "fair sample" of the general population with regard to dentition, then the morphic equation [''tf''] = [''t''][''f''], whose transpose gives [''t''] = [''tf'']/[''f''], is every bite as true as the defining equation in this circumstance, namely, [''t''] = [''tm'']/[''m'']. |
− | That if the population of Frenchmen is a "fair sample" of | |
− | the general population with regard to dentition, then the | |
− | morphic equation ['t'f] = ['t'][f], whose transpose gives | |
− | ['t'] = ['t'f]/[f], is every bite as true as the defining | |
− | equation in this circumstance, namely, ['t'] = ['t'm]/[m]. | |
− | </pre>
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| ===Commentary Note 11.21=== | | ===Commentary Note 11.21=== |