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    It is not the case that Information, as Floridi argues in 'The Philosophy of Information', requires truthfulness and well-formedness conditions that cannot be reduced to purely syntactic encodings.

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    • 1.Truth and well-formedness are separable: syntactic correctness is measurable and objective, while truth requires external metaphysical assumptions.
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    • 2.Information theory (Shannon) successfully quantifies information through probability distributions without invoking truth conditions.
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    • 3.False information still functions informationally—misinformation constrains possibilities and guides behavior like true information does.
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    • 1.Syntax alone cannot distinguish true from false statements; 'snow is black' is well-formed but meaningless without semantic content.
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    • 2.Information requires intentionality and aboutness—properties that transcend bit-sequences and demand truth-conditions to ground meaning.
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    • 3.A corrupted database file may be syntactically intact yet informationally worthless if it misrepresents reality.
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