Outline of a Theory of Strongly Semantic Information

Minds and Machines

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 197-221

  Floridi, Luciano ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c WOLFSON COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bar Hillel; Carnap; Decision theory; Dretske; Error analysis; Grice; Information theory; Semantic inaccuracy; Semantic information; Semantic paradox; Semantic vacuity; Situation logic

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORMAL LOGIC; INFORMATION THEORY;

BAR-HILLEL; CARNAP; DRETSKE; GRICE; SEMANTIC INACCURACY; SEMANTIC INFORMATION; SEMANTIC PARADOX; SEMANTIC VACUITY; SITUATION LOGIC;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 1842739344     PISSN: 09246495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:MIND.0000021684.50925.c9     Document Type: Article

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