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    Supports→Deductive inferences are informative for humans because humans are not logically omniscient

    If humans were logically omniscient, they would be automatically aware of all logical consequences of their information and deduction would yield no new information for them

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    To see how this is so, consider again cases involving information flow via observations. Such observations are informative because we are not omniscient in the normal, God-like sense of the term. We have to go and observe that the cat is on the mat, for example, precisely because we are not automatically aware of every fact in the universe. Inferences work in an analogous manner. Deductions are informative for us precisely because we are not logically omniscient. We have to reason about matters,

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