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Biology with information and meaning.

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  • 1. Dipartimento di Morfologia ed Embriologia, Via Fossato di Mortara, Ferrara, Italy.
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    • Barbieri M 1
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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 01 Jan 2003, 25(2):243-254
https://doi.org/10.1080/03919710312331273045 PMID: 15295868 

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It is shown that information and meaning can be defined by operative procedures, and that we need to recognize them as new types of natural entities. They are not quantities (neither fundamental nor derived) because they cannot be measured, and they are not qualities because they are not subjective features. Here it is proposed to call them nominable entities, i.e., entities which can be specified only by naming their components in their natural order.

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