In philosophy of language, the phenomena fundamental to human
communication are routinely modeled in ways that do not require commitment
to a concept of “information” separate from those of “data,” “meaning,”
“communication,” “knowledge,” and “relevance” (inter alia). A taxonomy
of conceptions of information may be developed that relies on
commonly drawn philosophical distinctions (between linguistic, mental,
and physical entities, between objects and events, and between particulars
and universals); in such a taxonomy, no category requires the label “information”
in order to be differentiated from others. It is suggested that a
conception of information-as-relevance is currently the most productive of
advances in theoretical information studies.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1684
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