ABSTRACT
Having spent considerable time going over the notion of the object as a schema of possibilities of experience, and having pointed to the notion of the defi nition of the situation as a set of possibilities of experience whose organization we shall describe according to the criteria of consistency, compatibility, continuity, temporal continuity, and clarity, the place where we shall look for the thing we will call information should be obvious enough. In its general meaning the term information will refer to some property of the way in which a set of possibilities are ordered. (Remember possibility should read “possibility of experience” and by this term is meant any experience that can serve the function of specifying an object. The term possibility means alternative, not likelihood.)
Before we begin, let’s introduce a few necessary notions: signal, sign, expression, message, and communication.
