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From: ACOUST@BNR.BITNET ("Nahum  Goldmann", N.)
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Subject: def of info
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Date: Sun, 12 Jun 88 13:49 EDT
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From: "Nahum (N.) Goldmann" <ACOUST%BNR.BITNET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Subject:  def of info
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In AIList Digest V7 #26 Bruce Nevin asks:

>>Can anyone point me to a coherent definition of information respecting
>>information content, as opposed to merely "quantity of information"?

Having analyzed several dozens of various definitions I, of course,
havily favour my own (see N. Goldmann, Online Research and Retrieval...
ISBN 0-8306-1947-X, Chapter 2).  I believe it is about "meaning" as
opposed to "statistics".

Greetings

Nahum Goldmann
acoust@bnr.ca
(613)763-2329