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Truth, belief and experience — a route to information

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In gratitude to Klaus Krickeberg who introduced the author to Shannons information theory, this contribution is devoted to certain basic considerations which are consistent with, yet carry you beyond Shannons original ideas from 1948, cf. [13]. Fact is that since Shannons pioneering work — to a great extent centred around the notion of entropy — a jungle of alternative entropy measures have been suggested. Philosophical speculation will lead us through this jungle and lay out a narrow path of special entropy measures, the so-called Tsallis entropies, thereby providing these entropy measures with special credibility.

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Dedicated to the 80th birthday of Klaus Krickeberg

Original Russian Text © F. Topsøe, 2009, published in Izvestiya NAN Armenii. Matematika, 2009, No. 2, pp. 47–55.

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Topsøe, F. Truth, belief and experience — a route to information. J. Contemp. Mathemat. Anal. 44, 105–110 (2009). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068362309020046

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