عنوان

Information and Inference

(Number (ISBN

9401032963

(Number (ISBN

9789401032964

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b594501

Title Proper

Information and Inference

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[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Jaakko Hintikka, Patrick Suppes.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1970

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(x, 338 pages).

Series Title

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.

Text of Note

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.

Text of Note

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.

Parallel Title

Synthese Library, vol. 28

Information theory.

Philosophy (General)

Science -- Philosophy.

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Book number

edited by Jaakko Hintikka, Patrick Suppes.

Jaakko Hintikka

Patrick Suppes

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