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I present two measures of information for both consistentand inconsistent sets of sentences in a finite language ofpropositional logic. The measures of information are based onmeasures of inconsistency developed in Knight (2002).Relative information measures are then provided corresponding to thetwo information measures.
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Knight, K.M. Two Information Measures for Inconsistent Sets. Journal of Logic, Language and Information 12, 227–248 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022351919320
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