Posted by Mezei on June 07, 1999 at 11:43:35:

In Reply to: Re: What is the difference between information and explicit knowledge? posted by Reilly Atkinson on June 03, 1999 at 21:48:42:

Here's what I believe is the fundamental difference between knowledge and information (and data).

Knowledge represents our understanding of the whole. This requires that we see both sides of any debate, problem, opinion etc at the same time. This is a difficult practice. It can result in insights provide new ways of seeing. But this is what knowledge is - the ability to grasp the whole.

Now what is the 'whole' comprised of? Two sides, ie the yin and yang. Individually, these two sides are 'information'. When we decide to select one view over the other, when we segment the whole into parts, we are creating information.

And lastly, we we further break information down into minutae, we are creating data.

Now, since the world is fundamentally whole even in the most obscure states, ie when we break things down we still end up with tandem elements (particle/antiparticle), we can further understand that knowledge/info/data pertain to states of being. That knowledge represents the intellectual/sociological state; that information represents the sociological/biological state; and that data represents the biological/inorganic state. Which overall, can be deemed the overlapping states of 'animate/inanimate'.

What I am discussing here is the subject of Absolute knowledge.

Don

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• Re: What is the difference between information and explicit knowledge? Reilly Atkinson 17:52:24 6/07/99 (5)
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    • Re: Whole vs. Coincidence Reilly Atkinson 18:14:19 6/08/99 (3)
      • Good philosophical ontology? ron dw 09:19:25 6/09/99 (2)
        • Re: Good philosophical ontology? Reilly Atkinson 21:16:09 6/11/99 (1)
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• Re: Excellent! Kees de Vos 14:18:56 6/07/99 (0)

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