Information and Information Flow: An Introduction
β Scribed by Manuel Bremer; Daniel Cohnitz
- Publisher
- De Gruyter
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 244
- Series
- Linguistics & Philosophy; 3
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This book is conceived as an introductory text into the theory of syntactic and semantic information, and information flow. Syntactic information theory is concerned with the information contained in the very fact that some signal has a non-random structure. Semantic information theory is concerned with the meaning or information content of messages and the like. The theory of information flow is concerned with deriving some piece of information from another. The main part will take us to situation semantics as a foundation of modern approaches in information theory. We give a brief overview of the background theory and then explain the concepts of information, information architecture and information flow from that perspective.
β¦ Table of Contents
Title
Table of Content
Introduction Varieties of Information
1 The Syntactic Approach to Information
1|1 The Syntactic Approach to Information I
1|2 The Syntactic Approach to Information II
1 .3 Algorithmic Information Theory
2 The Semantic Approach to Information What Information is given by that Sentence?
2|1 Explicating Information by Possible Worlds
2 .2 Strong Semantic Information
2 .3 Do You Get Information in a Logic Course?
3 The Causal Approach to Information The Information You Have But Do Not Believe
3|1 The Causal Theory of Information Flow
3|2 Information in Externalist Epistemology
3|3 Perception, Belief, and the Problem of Misrepresentation
4 Situation Theory and Information Bringing Ontology back into Information Theory
4 .1 The Framework of Situation Semantics
4|2 Information Architecture and Constraints
5 Information Flow in Distributed Systems Renaming Your βEvening Starβ Yields New Information
5 .1 Information Flow Within the Situation Framework
5 .2 Information Flow and Paraconsistency
5|3 Get Yourself Involved into Impossible Situations
5 .4 Genetic Information?
Epilogue
Further References
Glossary of Notation
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