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This paper understands knowledge and information to operate within a reality that is rendered dynamic by asymmetrical ‘cuts’ that ontologically divide reality into internal and external realms, and epistemologically divide experience into formal models and informal instances. Semiosis develops signs, understood as actions of knowledge and information, to mediate the asymmetry developed by these cuts.
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Taborsky, E. (2002). Semiosis, Information and Knowledge. In: Liu, K., Clarke, R.J., Andersen, P.B., Stamper, R.K., Abou-Zeid, ES. (eds) Organizational Semiotics. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 94. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35611-2_12
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