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MAKE INFORMATION IN SCIENCE MEANINGFUL AGAIN (pages 263-286)

Javier ANTA ABSTRACT: Although the everyday notion of information has clear semantic properties, the all-pervasive technical concept of Shannon information was defended being a non-semantic concept. In this paper I will show how this measure of information was implicitly ‘semantized’ in the early 1950s by many authors, such as Rothstein’s or Brillouin’s, in order to explain the knowledge dynamics underlying …

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