Publication details
Information ecology and the concept of information
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Information ecology and libraries |
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| Field | Philosophy and religion |
| Keywords | information ecology; the concept of information; Capurro’s trilema; paradigms of information science |
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| Description | In the paper, the author presents that information ecology can be considered to be a theoretical reaction on the inquiry into the character of the concept of information, especially on the solving of so called Capurro's trilema. The trilema consists in the answering the question of whether information is an univocal, analogical, or equivocal concept. In the paper, there is introduced what does univocity, analogy and equivocity of the concepts mean and there is presented some conceptions according to which the concept of information is considered to be an univocal, analogical and equivocal concept. There is also shown that a development of information ecology is possible only if we could consider information to be an analogical concept. |
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