Comments on: An Analysis of Informational Relevance http://theinformationalturn.net/philosophy_information/an-analysis-of-informational-relevance/ Including Philosophy and/of Information, Logic and Epistemology Sun, 19 Jun 2011 05:04:47 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Jakko Hintikka and Information in Philosophy | The Informational Turn http://theinformationalturn.net/philosophy_information/an-analysis-of-informational-relevance/comment-page-1/#comment-216 Jakko Hintikka and Information in Philosophy | The Informational Turn Mon, 16 Aug 2010 05:47:37 +0000 http://theinformationalturn.net/?p=251#comment-216 [...] I am currently using Hintikka’s approach to analysing questions as requests for information in terms of epistemic modal logic for some research on informational relevance. [...] [...] I am currently using Hintikka’s approach to analysing questions as requests for information in terms of epistemic modal logic for some research on informational relevance. [...]

]]> By: admin http://theinformationalturn.net/philosophy_information/an-analysis-of-informational-relevance/comment-page-1/#comment-120 admin Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:43:55 +0000 http://theinformationalturn.net/?p=251#comment-120 Depends on what type of information one is talking about or how they are talking about it, but information in general is not solely a reducible, anthropomorphic quantity. I am talking here about semantic information. Semantic information quantity is an agent-independent thing. The informativeness or relevance of a piece of information however is an agent-relative thing. See the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on <a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/information-semantic/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Semantic Conceptions of Information</a> for more information. Depends on what type of information one is talking about or how they are talking about it, but information in general is not solely a reducible, anthropomorphic quantity. I am talking here about semantic information. Semantic information quantity is an agent-independent thing. The informativeness or relevance of a piece of information however is an agent-relative thing.

See the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Semantic Conceptions of Information for more information.

]]> By: Carlos http://theinformationalturn.net/philosophy_information/an-analysis-of-informational-relevance/comment-page-1/#comment-119 Carlos Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:41:08 +0000 http://theinformationalturn.net/?p=251#comment-119 Thus "Information" is solely a reducible, anthropomorphic quantity rather than phyiscal/intrinsic to all things? Thus “Information” is solely a reducible, anthropomorphic quantity rather than phyiscal/intrinsic to all things?

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