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Against digital ontology
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The paper argues that digital ontology (the ultimate nature of reality is digital, and the universe is a computational system equivalent to a Turing Machine) should be carefully distinguished from informational ontology (the ultimate nature of reality is structural), in order to abandon the former and retain only the latter as a promising line of research. Digital vs. analogue is a Boolean dichotomy typical of our computational paradigm, but digital and analogue are only "mo...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1007/s11229-008-9334-6
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- Publisher:
- Springer Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Synthese Journal website
- Volume:
- 168
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 151-178
- Publication date:
- 2009-05-05
- DOI:
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1573-0964
- ISSN:
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0039-7857
- URN:
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uuid:ca597beb-1536-4c01-9eb9-c22b4517a67f
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- ora:3868
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- English
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- Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
- Copyright date:
- 2008
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- The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. Citation: Floridi, L. (2009). 'Against digital ontology', Synthese 168(1), 151-178. [The original article is available at http://www.springerlink.com/content/f06g187438542013/].
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