Towards quantifying a wider reality: Shannon exonerata

Information (Switzerland)

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 624-634

  Ulanowicz, Robert E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apophasis; Constraint; Entropy; Flexibility; Hegelian dialectic; Information; Meaning; Positivism; Probability; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN; BOLTZMANN EXPRESSION; LIVING SYSTEMS; SHANNON;

ENTROPY;

EID: 84861661366     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20782489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/info2040624     Document Type: Article

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