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Is most information false?
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Most information does not have a meaningful truth value.
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That question is too broad to be get an answer.
>But taking into account every has a S/N ratio not infinite then "yes"
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>>16818979
Information just is.
The conclusion you make of it can be true or false :^)
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>>16818979
for any one piece of information there exists some other piece of information diametrically opposed to it, and thus false. is vs. isn't. thus, the set of all information is closed under inverses, and it is evenly split between true and false.
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>>16819612
wrong. reality isn't binary
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>>16819612
So information *has* to have a truth value? What about something like "This information is false." Where does that go? Is there more valueless information than valued?
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>>16820131
Every paradoxical statement is false on a metalevel. So there are more false statements.
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>>16819621
whew good thing boolean is a primitive and we avoid this issue at its conception
surely nobody would be dumb enough to parse a complex construct as a primitive, yes?



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