Taxonomy of Information Management

Semiotic Ladder.txt
Human Information Functions
  SOCIAL WORLD
    beliefs
    expectations
    functions
    commitments
    contracts
    law
    cuture
  PRAGMATICS
    intentions
    communications
    conversations
    negotiations
  SEMANTICS
    meanings
    propositions
    validity
    truth
    signification
    denotations
The IT Platform
  SYNTACTICS
    formal structure
    language
    logic
    data
    records decuction
    software
    files
  EMPIRICS
    pattern
    variety
    noise
    entropy
    channel capacity
    redundancy
    efficiency
    codes
  PHYSICAL WORLD
    signals
    traces
    physical distinctions
    hardware
    component density
    speed
    economics