[Fis] Principles of IS

2017-09-19 Thread Emanuel Diamant
Dear Pedro, Dear FIS Colleagues, I heartily welcome Pedro's attempt to discipline our discussion on Principles that underpin our engagement with information studies. After all, the prime and most important purpose of our discussions is to find out the right and the all-embracing definition

Re: [Fis] INFORMATION: JUST A MATTER OF MATH

2017-09-19 Thread Koichiro Matsuno
On 19 Sept 2017 at 1:26 AM Terrence W. DEACON wrote: the science of information is still at an early stage and could be potentially held back by the hubris of certainty. Although I do not want to muddy the waters further, the distinction between information (to whom; or only to the

[Fis] About First Class Citizens

2017-09-19 Thread Harold Goranson
Jerry suggests that I clarify what I mean by ‘first class agent.' This is a term from the semantic modeling space I am coming from, because I worry about building models we can use in machines in the way we do with current models. A ‘first class agent’ is a useful primitive in a model that —

[Fis] Fwd: Re: PRINCIPLES OF IS

2017-09-19 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Mensaje reenviado Asunto: Re: [Fis] PRINCIPLES OF IS Fecha: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 09:21:51 +0200 De: Rafael Capurro Responder a:raf...@capurro.de Para: Pedro C. Marijuan Dear Pedro, a short comment to your intro