INFORMATION WITHOUT TRUTH

INFORMATION WITHOUT TRUTH

According to the Veridicality Thesis, information requires truth. On this view, smoke carries information about there being a fire only if there is a fire, the proposition that the earth has two moons carries information about the earth having two moons only if the earth has two moons, and so on. We...

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Published in:Metaphilosophy Vol. 41; no. 3; pp. 313 - 330
Main Authors: SCARANTINO, ANDREA, PICCININI, GUALTIERO
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01-04-2010
Subjects:
Cognition
cognitive science
Computer science
Doorbells
false information
Information loss
Information theory
knowledge
Measles
Metaphilosophy
Misinformation
Natural satellites
Semantic Information
Smoke
Veridicality Thesis
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Summary:According to the Veridicality Thesis, information requires truth. On this view, smoke carries information about there being a fire only if there is a fire, the proposition that the earth has two moons carries information about the earth having two moons only if the earth has two moons, and so on. We reject this Veridicality Thesis. We argue that the main notions of information used in cognitive science and computer science allow A to have information about the obtaining of p even when p is false.
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ArticleID:META1632
ISSN:0026-1068
1467-9973
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9973.2010.01632.x