Re: [Fis] FW: Fw: Definition of Knowledge?Chrysippus's dog

2009-10-07 Thread john.holg...@ozemail.com.au
Stanley, Christophe simpler forms of knowledge management as existing in animals? I agree natural language probably separates hominids from other primates etc. But what about 'information'? And inferencing? Remember 'Chrysippus's dog' who infers to the best explanation (abduction) when on

Re: [Fis] FW: Fw: Definition of Knowledge?Chrysippus's dog

2009-10-07 Thread Jacob Lee
Why not situation theory, or Barwise and Seligman's channel theory? Jacob john.holg...@ozemail.com.au wrote: Stanley, Christophe IMO we need to develop a comprehensive Grammar of Information which embraces not only semantics and syntax but also modality, case, aspect , tense etc and

Re: [Fis] FW: Fw: Definition of Knowledge?Chrysippus's dog

2009-10-07 Thread John Collier
I would second that. There are some relevant papers on my home page: http://www.ukzn.ac.za/undphil/collier/papers/InformationCausationComputation.pdf http://logica.ugent.be/philosophica/fulltexts/75-4.pdf http://www.ukzn.ac.za/undphil/collier/papers/Information%20in%20Biological%20Systems.pdf