The metaphilosophy of information

Minds and Machines

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 331-344

  Sequoiah Grayson, Sebastian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b BALLIOL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analysis; Bar Hillel; Bar Hillel Carnap semantic paradox; Carnap; Classical semantic information; Contingency requirement on informativeness; Floridi; Information; Informativeness; Non reductionist stance; Shannon's principle; Strongly semantic information

Indexed keywords

AD HOC NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; SEMANTICS;

BAR-HILLEL-CARNAP SEMANTIC PARADOX; CLASSICAL SEMANTIC INFORMATIONS; CONTINGENCY REQUIREMENT ON INFORMATIVENESS; INFORMATIVENESS; NON-REDUCTIONIST STANCE; SHANNON'S PRINCIPLE; STRONGLY SEMANTIC INFORMATIONS;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 36148953277     PISSN: 09246495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11023-007-9072-4     Document Type: Article

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