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WITTGENSTEIN LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION BACK TO T...

This book is an extension of the discussions presented in Blair's 1990 book Language and
Representation in Information Retrieval  which was selected as the Best Information Science
Book of the Year by the American Society for Information Science (ASIS). That work stated that
the Philosophy of Language had the best theory for understanding meaning in language  and
within the Philosophy of Language  the work of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein was found to be
most perceptive. The success of that book provided an incentive to look more deeply into
Wittgenstein's philosophy of language  and how it can help us to understand how to represent
the intellectual content of information. This is what the current title does  and by using this
theory it creates a firm foundation for future Information Retrieval research. The work
consists of four related parts. Firstly  a brief overview of Wittgenstein's philosophy of
language and its relevance to information systems. Secondly  a detailed explanation of
Wittgenstein's late philosophy of language and mind. Thirdly  an extended discussion of the
relevance of his philosophy to understanding some of the problems inherent in information
systems  especially those systems which rely on retrieval based on some representation of the
intellectual content of that information. And  fourthly  a series of detailed footnotes which
cite the sources of the numerous quotations and provide some discussion of the related issues
that the text inspires.

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