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One or Many Concepts of Information?

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One of the purposes of this paper is to inquire whether the theoretical (mathematical - logical) study of information can be tracked down to a single concept of information, or whether this study infallibly leads to several distinct concepts (of information). The philosophical interest of this inquiry is, to use an old and slightly infamous concept, self-evident.

I dedicate this paper to my good friend, the economist, computer scientist and philosopher Ambros Lüthi.

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Sommaruga, G. (2009). One or Many Concepts of Information?. In: Sommaruga, G. (eds) Formal Theories of Information. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5363. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00659-3_10

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