Epistemology

• information theory
  27 January 2018

  WKP
  Definition: Information theory studies the quantification, storage, and communication of information. It was originally proposed by Claude E. Shannon in 1948 to find fundamental limits on signal processing and communication operations such as data compression, in a landmark paper entitled "A Mathematical Theory of Communication".
  Applications of fundamental topics of information theory include lossless data compression (e.g. ZIP files), lossy data compression (e.g. MP3s and JPEGs), (...)

• causality
  4 July 2016

  causation, cause and effect WP
  Causality is the agency or efficacy that connects one process (the cause) with another (the effect), where the first is understood to be partly responsible for the second, and the second is dependent on the first.
  In general, a process has many causes, which are said to be causal factors for it, and all lie in its past. An effect can in turn be a cause of many other effects, which all lie in its future.
  See also
  cause causes of diseases (...)

• Information science
  11 October 2015

  WP
  Definition: Information science is an interdisciplinary field primarily concerned with the analysis, collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval, movement, dissemination, and protection of information.
  Practitioners within the field study the application and usage of knowledge in organizations, along with the interaction between people, organizations and any existing information systems, with the aim of creating, replacing, improving, or understanding information (...)

• stochasticity
  17 April 2011

  References
  Stochasticity versus determinism in development: a false dichotomy? Zernicka-Goetz M, Huang S. Nat Rev Genet. 2010 Nov;11(11):743-4. PMID: #20877326#

• animal soul
  14 February 2006

  Books
  From beast-machine to man-machine;: Animal soul in French letters from Descartes to La Mettrie. by Leonora Cohen Rosenfield. Octagon Books; New and enl ed edition (January 1, 1968). ASIN: B0006BVWHI

• induction
  14 November 2005
• pre-socratic philosophy
  14 November 2005

  What we like to think of as "philosophic thought" first appears in Greece in a poem, Theogony , written by Hesiod about 725 B.C.; the Theogony retells the myths of the gods and speculates in part about the origins of things and the order of the universe. What we generally call "Greek philosophy" was almost certainly derived by the Greeks from Egyptian culture, particularly natural science (physics and math) which preoccupied Greek thought up to the time of Plato. The Greeks seem also to (...)

• milesian school
  14 November 2005

  Milesian or Ionian School

• Pythagoreans
  14 November 2005

  Pythagoreanism

• Sophists
  14 November 2005

  The Sophists

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