Letters to the Editor: The Utility of Information and Communication Theory

Dear Sir: It is of special interest and significance that both, Susan Artandi's paper and mine both appear in the same issue of JASIS, (i.e., Vol. 24 (No. 4): (1973). What Susan claims Shannon's Communication Theory does not do, I make an effort to show that it does. On a stochastic basis, Shannon's Theory does measure meaningful (or semantic) content. It is true that the Shannon measures, as developed, were concerned...