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(2009) Synthese 167 (2).

Reasoning about data and information

Patrick Allo

pp. 231-249

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.

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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-008-9407-6

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Allo, P. (2009). Reasoning about data and information. Synthese 167 (2), pp. 231-249.

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