Bar-Hillel/Carnap 1952 and Grice

Well, the thing Levinson means is indeed

a technical report at MIT dated 1952 authored

Bar-Hillel & Carnap alright.

"Semantic information" in header.

One wonders if ordering of authors is following alphabet? I hope so, for I want to see Carnap as behind the thing here.

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How this connects with Grice's idea of 'information' may be a trick.

As L. Floridi, whose role in our lives is to elucidate the role of information for us, and with his unique Oxonian perspective, was kind enough to quote me in print when, after asking the relevant question in PHILOS-L got, for once, the relevant reply from me:

Hamburgers and truth.

"False information is no information"
Grice WoW:RE.

This is vintage Grice. Surely it's scary enough. As Yogi Berra would have it:

False 'information' is "no" INFORMATION!

Etc.


But the interesting question remains: the analysis of bytes of information, as in 'byte by byte'.

Surely it _is_ difficult to imagine

(Ex)Fx & -Gx v H(x,y) iff Gy (y)Gx

in terms of 'informativeness'. As students of logic we were never asked THAT question. Logical form does not directly yield to issues of 'is this informative enough'? "To what end?" One wants to ask.

Etc.

So Bar-Hillel and Carnap must indulge in very serious meaning postulates if they are going to get away with it! As they should!