ed, the space that is
    spanned by this pair of quasi-orthogonal &quot;tensions&quot; is
    the very space that is measured by what what Peirce,
    in 1865, called the &quot;information&quot; borne by the sign.
    This information, then, is the synthetic unity of
    the twofold tensions.

2.  The relation of abstract to concrete is also more nuanced
    in pragmatic thought than a shear dichotomy can encompass.
    This is primarily because Peirce recognizes two kinds of
    abstraction, namely, &quot