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Notions like ‘entropy’ and ‘(expected) value of observations’ are widely used in science to determine which experiment to conduct to make a better informed choice between a set of scientific theories that are all consistent with the data. But these notions seem to be almost equally important for our use of language in daily life as they are for scientific inquiries.
I appreciate it a lot that Giovanni Sommaruga invited me to submit this paper to the present volume, given that the bulk of it was written already in 2000. I would like to thank the following people for discussion and comments: Alexandru Baltag, Balder ten Cate, Paul Dekker, Roberto Festa, Jeroen Groenendijk, Emiel Krahmer, Marie Nilsenova, and Yde Vennema. Since the time that I wrote this paper, I have published two articles (van Rooij 2004a,b) that could be thought of as successors of this paper.
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van Rooij, R. (2009). Comparing Questions and Answers: A Bit of Logic, a Bit of Language, and Some Bits of Information. In: Sommaruga, G. (eds) Formal Theories of Information. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5363. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00659-3_7
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