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Anatomy of Information (Philip A Stibbe, 2011, Perpetual Spring)
In his lecture to the Prussian Academy of Science ('Geometry and Experience', January 27, 1921) Albert Einstein includes the precise formulation of a question linking two, otherwise independent, propositions: 'How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality?'

That mathematics is admirably adapted to the objects of reality, is a matter of human experience: the proposition evidences itself, within the limits of experimental error, upon almost every occasion of individual experimentation. That mathematics is a product of human thought independent of experience, however, is a proposition the evidence for which is of a purely logical order: that it cannot be contradicted mathematically without begging the seemingly-unanswerable question of what, then, informs the contradiction? In his 'Anatomy Of Information', the author attempts to resolve this paradox by reconstructing extant models of information from their smallest natural constituents.