Information, possible worlds and the cooptation of scepticism

DOI10.1007/S11229-010-9736-0zbMATH Open1214.03004OpenAlexW2082598198WikidataQ56891395 ScholiaQ56891395MaRDI QIDQ625697FDOQ625697

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

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zbMATH Keywords

Hamming distancepossible worldsDavid LewisLevenshtein distancephilosophy of informationsemantic informationBorel numbersinformational scepticismmodal metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Information theory (general) (94A15) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Logic in the philosophy of science (03A10)

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