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Series:   Elements in Philosophy and Logic

Logic and Information

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2024

Edwin Mares
Edwin Mares
Affiliation:
Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington

Summary

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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modal logicrelevance logicphilosophy of informationinformation updatingprobability
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Series: Elements in Philosophy and Logic
Online ISBN: 9781009466745
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 13 June 2024

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