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  • Cited by 5
  • Edwin Mares, Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
May 2024
Print publication year:
2024
Online ISBN:
9781009466745
Subjects:
Logic, Philosophy

Book description

This Element looks at two projects that relate logic and information: the project of using logic to integrate, manipulate and interpret information and the proect of using the notion of information to provide interpretations of logical systems. The Element defines 'information' in a manner that includes misinformation and disinformation and uses this general concept of information to provide an interpretation of various paraconsistent and relevant logics. It also integrates these logics into contemporary theories of informational updating, probability theory and (rather informally) some ideas from the theory of the complexity of proofs. The Element assumes some prior knowledge of modal logic and its possible world semantics, but all the other necessary background is provided.

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