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10.1007/3-540-59071-4_36

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Information possible worlds and the cooptation of

Authors: Luciano Floridi
Publish Date: 2010/03/18
Volume: 175, Issue: 1, Pages: 63-88
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The article investigates the sceptical challenge from an informationtheoretic perspective Its main goal is to articulate and defend the view that either informational scepticism is radical but then it is epistemologically innocuous because redundant or it is moderate but then epistemologically beneficial because useful In order to pursue this cooptation strategy the article is divided into seven sections Section 1 sets up the problem Section 2 introduces Borel numbers as a convenient way to refer uniformly to the data that individuate different possible worlds Section 3 adopts the Hamming distance between Borel numbers as a metric to calculate the distance between possible worlds In Sects 4 and 5 radical and moderate informational scepticism are analysed using Borel numbers and Hamming distances and shown to be either harmless extreme form or actually fruitful moderate form Section 6 further clarifies the approach by replying to some potential objections In the conclusion the Peircean nature of the overall approach is briefly discussed

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