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The expression ‘unreliable information’ presupposes some sort of semantics, since it refers to the possibility of a discrepancy between what the information says and the actual state of affairs. Now, information says something, in a non-derived sense of the word, only if a correspondence has been established between its sign-aspect and the state of the world it points to. This already constitutes rudimentary semantics.
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Szaniawski, K. Two Concepts of Information’, in: Theory and Decision, 5, 1974, pp. 9–21 [see this volume, pp. 157-166.].
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Szaniawski, K. (1998). The Concept of Unreliable Information. In: Chmielewski, A., Woleński, J. (eds) On Science, Inference, Information and Decision-Making. Synthese Library, vol 271. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5260-0_24
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