Let Us First Agree on what the Term "Semantics" Means: An Unorthodox Approach to an Age-Old Debate
Emanuel Diamant · InTech eBooks · 2012
Traditionally, has been seen as a feature of human language. The advent of the information era has led to its widespread redefinition as an information feature. Contrary to this praxis, I define as a special kind of information. Revitalizing the ideas of Bar-Hillel and Carnap I have recreated and re-established the notion of as the notion of Semantic Information. I have proposed a new definition of information (as a description, a linguistic text, a piece of a story or a tale) and a clear segregation between two different types of information - physical and semantic information. I hope, I have clearly explained the (usually obscured and mysterious) interrelations between data and physical information as well as the relation between physical information and semantic information. Consequently, usually indefinable notions of information, knowledge, memory, learning and semantics have also received their suitable illumination and explanation.