From data to semantic information

Entropy

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 125-145

  Floridi, Luciano ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b WOLFSON COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barwise; Deflationary Theories of Truth; Devlin; Dretske; Geach; Grice; Information Theory; Philosophy of Information; Semantic Information; Situation Logic; Standard Definition of Semantic Information; Theory of Truth

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DATA PROCESSING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; FORMAL LOGIC; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION THEORY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

DEFINITION OF SEMANTIC INFORMATION; SEMANTIC INFORMATION (SDI); SITUATION LOGIC; THEORY OF TRUTH;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 2942735506     PISSN: 10994300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e5020125     Document Type: Article

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