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17 Jun, 2010
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wolfgang hofkirchner, Four ways of thinking in information, in Proceedings of The 4th International Conference on the Foundations of Information Science, Beijing, 21 August–24 August 2010, MDPI: Basel, Switzerland, doi: 10.3390/fis2010-00339
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Four ways of thinking in information

wolfgang hofkirchner 1,2
1. vienna university of technology
2. unified theory of information research group
Abstract
There are four ways of thinking: reductionism, projectivism, disjunctivism, integrativism. The gap between the "hard" science perspective and the "soft" science perspective on information reflect these ways of thinking. The paper discusses how this gap might be bridged by applying the fourth way of thinking.
Keywords
Objectivism
subjectivism
subject-object-dialectics
materialism
idealism
emergentist materialism
externalism
internalism
perspectivism
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