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A Model of Communication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

David Harrah
David Harrah*
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University of California Riverside, Calif
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In this paper I discuss a generalization of communication theory. I sketch a model of the communication situation sufficiently general to subsume all models of particular aspects of communication. Several definitions and lines of inquiry are proposed. It will be evident that much of what I say has been influenced by Bar-Hillel (1), and also that this paper goes beyond Bar-Hillel's both in generality of scope and in details of analysis. The more general aim of the paper is to suggest a reconstruction of our intuitions regarding communication. In particular, I argue that we should drop the idea that anything is “conveyed” in communication.

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , October 1956 , pp. 333 - 342
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1956

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