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This work is about using conceptual tools for teaching logic. Our perspective is based on the information theoretic logic studied by J. Corcoran. Argumentation is referred in terms of a new terminology that is introduced from the concept of information, which is taken as primitive. Trying to show that the understanding of several basic concepts of logic could be facilitated, the notion of information content of a proposition is studied, the concept of logical implication is redefined from this informational point of view and the three kinds of inferences are informationally analysed.
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Nepomuceno-Fernández, Á. (2011). Information-Theoretic Perspective for Teaching Logic. In: Blackburn, P., van Ditmarsch, H., Manzano, M., Soler-Toscano, F. (eds) Tools for Teaching Logic. TICTTL 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6680. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21350-2_20
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