عنوان

Information and Inference

شابک

9401032963

شابک

9789401032964

شماره

b594501

عنوان اصلي

Information and Inference

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

edited by Jaakko Hintikka, Patrick Suppes.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Dordrecht

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Springer Netherlands

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

1970

نام خاص و کميت اثر

(x, 338 pages).

عنوان فروست

Synthese Library, Monographs on Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, Philosophy of Science, Sociology of Science and of Knowledge, and on the Mathematical Methods of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 28.

متن يادداشت

I. Information and Induction --; On Semantic Information --; Bayesian Information Usage --; Experimentation as Communication with Nature --; II. Information and Some Problems of the Scientific Method --; On the Information Provided by Observations --; Quantitative Tools for Evaluating Scientific Systematizations --; Qualitative Information and Entropy Structures --; III. Information and Learning --; Learning and the Structure of Information --; IV. New Applications of Information Concepts --; Surface Information and Depth Information --; Towards a General Theory of Auxiliary Concepts and Definability in First-Order Theories --; Index of Names --; Index of Subjects.

متن يادداشت

In the last 25 years, the concept of information has played a crucial role in communication theory, so much so that the terms information theory and communication theory are sometimes used almost interchangeably. It seems to us, however, that the notion of information is also destined to render valuable services to the student of induction and probability, of learning and reinforcement, of semantic meaning and deductive inference, as~well as of scientific method in general. The present volume is an attempt to illustrate some of these uses of information concepts. In 'On Semantic Information' Hintikka summarizes some of his and his associates' recent work on information and induction, and comments briefly on its philosophical suggestions. Jamison surveys from the sub­ jectivistic point of view some recent results in 'Bayesian Information Usage'. Rosenkrantz analyzes the information obtained by experimen­ tation from the Bayesian and Neyman-Pearson standpoints, and also from the standpoint of entropy and related concepts. The much-debated principle of total evidence prompts Hilpinen to examine the problem of measuring the information yield of observations in his paper 'On the Information Provided by Observations'. Pietarinen addresses himself to the more general task of evaluating the systematizing ('explanatory') power of hypotheses and theories, a task which quickly leads him to information concepts. Domotor develops a qualitative theory of information and entropy. His paper gives what is probably the first axiomatization of a general qualitative theory of information adequate to guarantee a numerical representation of the standard sort.

عنوان اصلي به زبان ديگر

Synthese Library, vol. 28

موضوع مستند نشده

Information theory.

موضوع مستند نشده

Philosophy (General)

موضوع مستند نشده

Science -- Philosophy.

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

edited by Jaakko Hintikka, Patrick Suppes.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Jaakko Hintikka

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Patrick Suppes

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y