Measure of Amount of Information and Its Meaning

• Authors: Jacek Wolski

Title variants

PL

Miara ilości informacji a jej znaczenie

EN

Measure of Amount of Information and Its Meaning

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

There are five different conceptions of information which have been created in last sixty years. Each of them diversely define notion of information. The aim of this article is to prove that these five conceptions represents two separate trends. Every introduced conception of information is qualified either to quantitative trend, which is supported on rating of amount of information, or to semantic trend, which describe meaning of information. These trends are exclusive.

• Publisher: University of Warsaw, Institute of Philosophy
• Journal: Filozofia Nauki
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 105-119

Dates

published

2010-09-01

Contributors

author

Jacek Wolski