Information, possible worlds and the cooptation of scepticism

DOI10.1007/s11229-010-9736-0zbMath1214.03004WikidataQ56891395 ScholiaQ56891395MaRDI QIDQ625697

Luciano Floridi

Publication date: 25 February 2011

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2299/9510

zbMATH Keywords

possible worlds; Hamming distance; David Lewis; Levenshtein distance; philosophy of information; semantic information; Borel numbers; informational scepticism; modal metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

03A05: Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations

94A15: Information theory (general)

03A10: Logic in the philosophy of science

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