Max Boisot (1943–2011) British academic and educator
Source: Knowledge Assets, 1998, p. 12
“Information establishes a relation between things and agents.”
Source: Knowledge Assets, 1998, p. 12
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Context: The publishers profess to be the agents of heaven in establishing virtue and therefore that they ought to receive some subsidy from the government. I can ask no stronger refutation to this claim … than the utterly unscrupulous methods pursued by them in seeking to influence Congress on this subject.
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“There are three relations [between thee and other things]:”
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VIII, 27
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Context: There are three relations [between thee and other things]: the one to the body which surrounds thee; the second to the divine cause from which all things come to all; and the third to those who live with thee.
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The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962])
Context: That both the Gilgamesh Epic and the Odyssey deal with the episodic wanderings of a hero, would not be sufficiently specific to establish a genuine relation between them. But when both epics begin with the declaration that the hero gained experience from his wide wanderings, and end with his homecoming, a relationship dimly appears.... when we note that whole episodes are in essential agreement, we are on firmer ground. For instance, both Gilgamesh and Odysseus reject a goddess's proposal for marriage; and each of the heroes interviews his dead companion in Hades.
“There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.”
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Vol. I, Ch. 1, Section 4, pg. 83.
(Buch I) (1867)
