http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2007/02/02/text-theories-information/ Failing better at understanding the past Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:33:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2007/02/02/text-theories-information/#comment-829 Investigations of a Dog » Text Theories: Meaning Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:49:55 +0000 http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2007/02/02/text-theories-information/#comment-829 [...] In my previous post about theories of digital text, I used Shannon’s communication theory to divide text into information and meaning, and then talked exclusively about text as information: a sequence of characters selected from a finite set. That allowed me to concentrate on one part of the problem, while excluding the more difficult problems associated with meaning. In this post, I’ll be trying to tackle some of the problems of meaning, while still trying to avoid as many as I can. I will also continue to avoid offering concrete definitions of “text” and “a text”, mainly because I haven’t found any satisfactory definitions yet, but I won’t be able to avoid using the word “text”. [...] [...] In my previous post about theories of digital text, I used Shannon’s communication theory to divide text into information and meaning, and then talked exclusively about text as information: a sequence of characters selected from a finite set. That allowed me to concentrate on one part of the problem, while excluding the more difficult problems associated with meaning. In this post, I’ll be trying to tackle some of the problems of meaning, while still trying to avoid as many as I can. I will also continue to avoid offering concrete definitions of “text” and “a text”, mainly because I haven’t found any satisfactory definitions yet, but I won’t be able to avoid using the word “text”. [...]

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