Reasoning about Data and Information

Patrick Allo

Reasoning about Data and Information

Patrick Allo

Philosophy - Moral Sciences

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Abstract

Cognitive states as well as cognitive commodities play central though distinct roles in our epistemological theories. By being attentive to how a difference in their roles affects our way of referring to them, we can undoubtedly accrue our understanding of the structure and functioning of our main epistemological theories. In this paper we propose an analysis of the dichotomy between states and commodities in terms of the method of abstraction, and more specifically by means of infomorphisms between different ways to classify states of information, information-bases, and evidential situations.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	231-249
Number of pages <span style="color:red"p> <font size="1.5"> ✽ </span> </font>	19
Journal	Synthese
Volume	167
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published - 2009

Keywords

Information
Information flow
Method of Abstraction

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-008-9407-6

FWOTM465: Reasoning between theories. A general framework for doing epistemology with logic.
Allo, P. & Van Bendegem, J. P.
1/10/08 → 30/09/14
Project: Fundamental

Workshop on the Philosophy of Information and Logic
Patrick Allo (Speaker)
3 Nov 2007 → 4 Nov 2007
Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a workshop/seminar

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Reasoning about Data and Information

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FWOTM465: Reasoning between theories. A general framework for doing epistemology with logic.

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Workshop on the Philosophy of Information and Logic

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