Let us first agree on what the term "semantics" means: An unorthodox approach to an age-old debate
This work addresses foundational conceptual problems in philosophy, linguistics, and information theory, offering a theoretical clarification that could impact fields relying on clear definitions of information and semantics.
The paper tackles the long-standing debate over the definition of semantics by proposing a new definition of information as descriptions or texts, clearly segregating physical and semantic information. It revitalizes historical ideas to explain interrelations between data, information, knowledge, memory, learning, and semantics, providing illumination on these typically obscure concepts.
Traditionally, semantics has been seen as a feature of human language. The advent of the information era has led to its widespread redefinition as an information feature. Contrary to this praxis, I define semantics as a special kind of information. Revitalizing the ideas of Bar-Hillel and Carnap I have recreated and re-established the notion of semantics as the notion of Semantic Information. I have proposed a new definition of information (as a description, a linguistic text, a piece of a story or a tale) and a clear segregation between two different types of information - physical and semantic information. I hope, I have clearly explained the (usually obscured and mysterious) interrelations between data and physical information as well as the relation between physical information and semantic information. Consequently, usually indefinable notions of "information", "knowledge", "memory", "learning" and "semantics" have also received their suitable illumination and explanation.