Re: What Is Information That A Sign May Bear It? -- Discussion

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WIS Discussion.  Note 13

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Re: WIS 12.  http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/msg05296.html
In: WIS.     http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/thrd19.html#04317

Hugh,

One of the themes that I hoped to illustrate with my story of uncertainty
was that concepts, like the concepts of information and now probability,
are more or less complex intellectual instruments that are evolved by
nature and developed by us to their own proper ends, but like many
other forms of complex organization, concepts can have their life, 
make their sense, and have their utility only under the requisite
conditions of use, but they fail to have even the token guarantee
that they normally have, when those conditions are not in force.

To get a sense of the sort of set-up that has to be put in place,
or that's assumed to be already in place, before the usual array
of concepts from probability theory can even begin to make sense,
you might well look into the first few pages of a standard text,
for instance, the work that I append a few excerpts from below.

Jon Awbrey

PAS.  Probability And Statistics

01.  http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/msg04885.html
02.  http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/msg04886.html
03.  http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/msg04887.html
04.  http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/msg04888.html
05.

The above material is excerpted from:

| Hoel, P.G., Port, S.C., & Stone, C.J.,
|'Introduction to Probability Theory',
| Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA, 1971.

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