mining how usefully
the presently established or any conceiovable theory of information
can serve as a formal tool in different types of inquiry.

Another way to express these questions is in terms of a distinction between
&quot;form&quot; and &quot;matter&quot;.  The form is what all inquiries have in common, and the
question is whether it is anything beyond the bare triviality that they all
have to take place in some universe of inquiry or another.  The matter is
what concerns each particular inquiry, and