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Logic and Information

Logic and Information

Logic and Information

Edwin Mares, Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington
June 2024
Paperback
9781009466738

    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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    June 2024
    Paperback
    9781009466738
    82 pages
    229 × 151 × 5 mm
    0.14kg
    Not yet published - available from February 2025

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Logic and information
    • 2. What is information?
    • 3. Classical logic and its informational discontents
    • 4. Information, identity, and logical truths
    • 5. Updating information
    • 6. Information and probability
    • Bibliography.