Offline and online data: on upgrading functional information to knowledge.
This paper addresses the problem of upgrading functional information to knowledge. Functional information is defined as syntactically well-formed, meaningful and collectively opaque data. Its use in the formal epistemology of information theories is crucial to solve the debate on the veridical natur...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 164; no. 2; pp. 371 - 393 |
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