Presented at CAP in Europe 2006 Conference (Trondheim, Norway)

Abstract. Holding on to the view that Logical Orthodoxy is at best a fallible guide for the formalisation of the concept of semantic information, the inclusion of any logical principle within a logic of information should be the object of closer scrutiny. By investigating the possibility of being informed of a (true) contradiction, this paper adopts the opposite strategy.

Following this unusual method, it is subsequently argued that paraconsistency alone is not enough to motivate the acceptance of some contradictions as genuine information; that accepting contradictory but not veridical information is a rather trivial position; and that only a few motivations for dialetheic (i.e. true contradictory) information stand up to the standards of a theory of semantic information.