Semiotic information theory

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Semiotic information theory refers to either the application of the mathematical tools of information theory to the study of semiotics or to alternatives to Claude Shannon's Information Theory based on semiotics.

Semiotic Theories of Information

In Cybernetics

Semioticians Doede Nauta and Winfried Nöth both see Charles Sanders Pierce as having created a theory of information in his works on semiotics.[1][2] Nauta defined semiotic information theory as the study of "the internal processes of coding, filtering, and information processing." [3]

See also

Notes

  1. Nauta 1972, p. 171.
  2. Nöth, p. 137.
  3. Nauta 1972, p. 91.

References

  • Nauta, Doede (1972). The Meaning of Information. The Hague: Mouton. ISBN 9789027919960. 
  • Nöth, Winfried (2013). "Charles S. Peirce’s Theory of Information: A Theory of the Growth of Symbols and of Knowledge". Cybernetics and Human Knowing 19 (1-2): 137-161. 

External links

  • Peirce, C.S. (1867), "Upon Logical Comprehension and Extension", Eprint





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