Information Using Likeness Measures.

Fricke, Martin

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Publication Date: 1997

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Information Using Likeness Measures.

Fricke, Martin

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v48 n10 p882-92 Oct 1997

Discusses the nature of information measuring its distance from the perfect theory or from the right answer to the information seeking question that led to it. The measures here are provided by the Tichy-Hilpinen-Oddie-Niiniluoto-likeness measures introduced in the context of the philosophical problem of verisimilitude. (JAK)

Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Epistemology, Information Science, Information Utilization, Objectivity, Philosophy, Probability, Semantics, Theories

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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