On Semantic Information
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Abstract
In the last couple of decades, a logician or a philosopher has run a risk whenever he has put the term 'information' into the title of one of his papers. In these days, the term 'information' often creates an expectation that the paper has something to do with that impressive body of results in communication theory which was first known as theory of transmission of information but which now is elliptically called information theory (in the United States at least).1 For the purposes of this paper, I shall speak of it as statistical information theory. I want to begin by making it clear that I have little to contribute to this statistical information theory as it is usually developed.