Journal article
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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- Publisher:
- Springer Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Synthese Journal website
- Volume:
- 168
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 151-178
- Publication date:
- 2009-05-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1573-0964
- ISSN:
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0039-7857
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- Language:
- English
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- ora:3868
- Deposit date:
- 2010-06-10
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- Copyright holder:
- Springer Science + Business Media B V
- Copyright date:
- 2008
- Notes:
- 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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