Incremental information

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 Editor
Sánchez, Lydia lsanchezg@ub.edu
 Incorporated contributions
Carlos Aguilar (9/2009)
 Usage domain
Situation theory
 Type
concept
 French
informations supplémentaires
 German inkrementelle Information 
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Incremental informational content: relative to constraint C’, and given event s’, a situation s carries the information that there is a situation of type S’’ if and only if: 

a)There is a constraint C’ holding between the type that results from the
conjunction of S and S’, and the type S’’ (C = [S S’ => S’’]).

b)The anchoring event s’ is of type S’.

c)The situation s is of type S.
 
References
  • PERRY, J; ISRAEL, D. (1990). “What is information?”. Information, Language, and Cognition. P. Hanson, University of British Columbia Press, 1990, p. 1-19
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Incremental informational content: relative to constraint C’, and given event s’, a situation s carries the information that there is a situation of type S’’ if and only if: 

a)There is a constraint C’ holding between the type that results from the 
conjunction of S and S’, and the type S’’ (C = [S S’ => S’’]). 

b)The anchoring event s’ is of type S’. 

c)The situation s is of type S.

References

PERRY, J; ISRAEL, D. (1990). “What is information?”. Information, Language, and Cognition. P. Hanson, University of British Columbia Press, 1990, p. 1-19
 
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