INFORMATION AND INDUCTION: A SUBJECTIVISTIC VIEW OF SOME RECENT RESULTS,
Abstract
Four purposes are attributed to the paper: (1) to attempt to provide a definition of semantic information that is adequate from a subjectivist point of view and that is based on the concept of information as change in belief; (2) to suggest a solution to the inductive problem that Suppes points out to lie at the foundations of a subjectivistic theory of decision; (3) to show how Carnap's continuum of inductive methods may be easily interpreted as a special case of the subjectivistic theory of induction to be presented; and (4) to provide a subjectivistic interpretation of Hintikka's two dimensional inductive continuum, and show how this is related to the problem of concept formation. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1968
- Accession Number
- AD0674038
Entities
People
- Dean Jamison
Organizations
- RAND Corporation