SEMANTIC CLOSURE
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(2) |
| ID | ◀ 2991 ▶ |
| Object type | Discipline oriented, Epistemology, ontology or semantics |
Self-catalysis of language and autopoiesis in its uses.
- “An entanglement of symbolic controls and material constraints which is closed on its semantics ”. (H. PATTEE, 1982)
Semantic closure results of the interactions between basic constraints in a language.
H. PATTEE, who introduced this quite abstract notion, applies it to any kind of languages, starting with molecular biology. He writes: “A generalized language might therefore be characterized in a simple chain of constraints that controls the construction of complex patterns” (in KLIR, 1991, p.583-85).
In a human language for instance, there are phonetic constraints at one level and orthographical, grammatical and syntactical ones at other levels.
Semantic closure is characteristic of self-reproducing organisms . L.M. ROCHA comments: “The principle of semantic closure entails symbolic messages that code for compounds of materialparts , which will themselves organize” (1996, p.380)
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