Information Without Information Studies

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science(Netherlands)

Volumn 34, Issue , 2014, Pages 143-179

  Furner, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional Entropy; Information Study; Mutual Information; Ontological Commitment; Shannon Information

Indexed keywords

EID: 85145328277     PISSN: 18717381     EISSN: 22151958     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6973-1_7     Document Type: Chapter

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