Mathematical philology: entropy information in refining classical texts' reconstruction, and early philologists' anticipation of information theory.
Philologists reconstructing ancient texts from variously miscopied manuscripts anticipated information theorists by centuries in conceptualizing information in terms of probability. An example is the editorial principle difficilior lectio potior (DLP): in choosing between otherwise acceptable altern...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2010
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