What is Shannon information?
Despite of its formal precision and its great many applications, Shannon's theory still offers an active terrain of debate when the interpretation of its main concepts is the task at issue. In this article we try to analyze certain points that still remain obscure or matter of discussion, and whose...
| Published in: | Synthese Vol. 193; no. 7; pp. 1983 - 2013 |
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