Information and Content
This chapter conceptualizes information in terms of ruling out scenarios. It discusses informative identity statements, which give rise to Frege’s puzzle, and the problem understanding how a valid logical inference can be informative. An analysis of informative logical inferences is given, on which the content of a valid deduction is often indeterminate. A consequence is that it is indeterminate exactly which logical inferences are informative. The chapter then analyses a rather different notion of content, concerning what is said by a speaker in making an utterance.
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1995 ◽
pp. 151-168
2019 ◽
Vol 23
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Vol 46
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pp. 97-118
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