Information, possible worlds and the cooptation of scepticism

DOI10.1007/S11229-010-9736-0MaRDI QIDQ625697zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors 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

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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