Information: A conceptual investigation

Information (Switzerland)

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 74-118

  Lenski, Wolfgang ^a  

^a France   (Germany)

Author keywords

Certainty; Information; Knowledge; Pragmatics; Semantics; Semiotics

Indexed keywords

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

EID: 80051550708     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20782489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/info1020074     Document Type: Article

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