That communication theory has a bearing on the philosophy of meaning has been suggested before (see for example, Weaver [89], pp. 114–117, and Lord Brain [8]). Note also the definition of the amount of subjective information in a propositio…When we ask for the meaning of a statement we are talking about language, and are using a metalanguage; and when we ask for the meaning of “meaning” we are using a metametalanguage, so it is not surprising that the question is difficult to …
Colin Cherry
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Colin Cherry appears in these readings primarily through his work on communication theory and the relationship between information, meaning, and language—he's cited alongside Weaver in discussions of how communication theory intersects with philosophy of meaning. His contribution seems to enable a distinction between the technical quantification of information (through Shannon's mathematical framework) and the semantic question of what statements actually mean, a crucial tension for understanding how machines process language versus how humans understand it. This distinction matters for "Pandaemonium Architecture" because it highlights why raw information theory alone cannot account for meaning-making, a problem central to debates about artificial intelligence and symbolic systems.
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