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

DOI10.1007/S10992-007-9060-4MaRDI QIDQ2481244zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson

Publication date 9 April 2008

Published in Journal of Philosophical Logic (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-007-9060-4

zbMATH Keywords

semantic informationlogical equivalencelogical truthdeductive inferencedepth informationattributive constituentsdepth probabilitydistributive normal forminformation yield of deductionssurface informationsurface probability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05)

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