NDLI: The Content of Deduction

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Jago, Mark
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	For deductive reasoning to be justified, it must be guaranteed to preserve truth from premises to conclusion; and for it to be useful to us, it must be capable of informing us of something. How can we capture this notion of information content, whilst respecting the fact that the content of the premises, if true, already secures the truth of the conclusion? This is the problem I address here. I begin by considering and rejecting several accounts of informational content. I then develop an account on which informational contents are indeterminate in their membership. This allows there to be cases in which it is indeterminate whether a given deduction is informative. Nevertheless, on the picture I present, there are determinate cases of informative (and determinate cases of uninformative) inferences. I argue that the model I offer is the best way for an account of content to respect the meaning of the logical constants and the inference rules associated with them without collapsing into a classical picture of content, unable to account for informative deductive inferences.
Starting Page	317
Ending Page	334
Page Count	18
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00223611
Journal	Journal of Philosophical Logic
Volume Number	42
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15730433
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2012-02-08
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Content Information Deduction Inference Epistemic scenarios Logic
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy

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