Questions tagged [order-theory]
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Order vs. chaos: do they have “different kinds of information”?
There’s an idea in information theory that randomness/random data contains “more information”, for example because it takes more information to describe the data. A regular pattern such as 01010101… ...
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Do ends really exist?
When planning or strategizing in everyday life, it's useful to distinguish between goals ("ends") and the tools or techniques one will apply to try to achieve them ("means"). For ...
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Can reasoning be modeled as a preference relation over sets of propositions?
So the idea is to model reasoning as a preference relation over sets of propositions. Given sets of propositions S1 and S2, we might have the relation S1 < S2, which we can read as "S2 is ...
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