The scandal of deduction : Hintikka on the information yield of deductive inferences

Journal of Philosophical Logic

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 67-94

  Sequoiah Grayson, Sebastian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b BALLIOL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attributive constituents; Constituents; Deductive inference; Depth; Depth information; Depth probability; Distributive normal forms; Logical equivalence; Logical truth; Semantic information; Surface information; Surface probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349189728     PISSN: 00223611     EISSN: 15730433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10992-007-9060-4     Document Type: Article

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