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references c-d
Topic:
natural language as communication
Topic:
entropy

Reference

Campbell, J., "Grammatical Man", New York, Simon and Shuster, 1982. Google

Quotations
28 ;;Quote: even though a sentence has lots of redundancy, it should contain something new or unexpected; otherwise why bother
33 ;;Quote: a system in maximum entropy is constant at the surface but also changing constantly
40 ;;Quote: Boltzmann made entropy a statistical property of an enormous number of particles; so disorder is only probably even though it is nearly certain


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