Re: [Fis] Category Theory and Information. Back to Basics

2011-10-28 Thread Joseph Brenner
- From: Stanley N Salthe To: joe.bren...@bluewin.ch ; fis@listas.unizar.es Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 11:16 PM Subject: Re: [Fis] Category Theory and Information. Back to Basics Joseph -- SS: Your objection seems to me to imply a fatal disjunction between our usual logics

Re: [Fis] Category Theory and Information. Back to Basics

2011-10-28 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 9:37 AM To: Stanley Salthe; fis Subject: Re: [Fis] Category Theory and Information. Back to Basics Dear Stan, To return to your question, I think that there is a disjunction between our usual logics and the actual, changing world but that it is fatal only

Re: [Fis] Category Theory and Information. Back to Basics

2011-10-28 Thread Stanley N Salthe
by this math? STAN Cheers, Joseph - Original Message - *From:* Stanley N Salthe ssal...@binghamton.edu *To:* joe.bren...@bluewin.ch ; fis@listas.unizar.es *Sent:* Tuesday, October 18, 2011 11:16 PM *Subject:* Re: [Fis] Category Theory and Information. Back to Basics Joseph -- SS

Re: [Fis] Category Theory and Information. Back to Basics

2011-10-18 Thread Gavin Ritz
Hi Joseph Dear Gavin, Loet and Colleagues, Gavin raises a fair question as to the reasons for my objection to the use of category theory with respect to information. My answer is that it suffers from the same limitations as standard truth-functional logic, set theory and mereology: