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Norbert Wiener on Coincidence - Dictionary of Arguments
II 18 Coincidence/Wiener: only when the term "coincidence" was fully understood together with the applications of the related terms could the question of the carrier capacity of a telegraph or telephone line be reasonably posed. Because measuring the amount of information is closely related to measuring the regularity or irregularity of a schema. >Entropy, >Information, >Information/Shannon, >Communication, >Probability._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
WienerN I Norbert Wiener Cybernetics, Second Edition: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine Cambridge, MA 1965 WienerN II N. Wiener The Human Use of Human Beings (Cybernetics and Society), Boston 1952 German Edition: Mensch und Menschmaschine Frankfurt/M. 1952 |