Information: A Conceptual Investigation

Information

关键词: information;    knowledge;    certainty;    semiotics;    semantics;    pragmatics;   

DOI  :  10.3390/info1020074

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

This paper is devoted to a study of the concept of information. We first situate the concept of information within the context of other philosophical concepts. However, an analysis of the concept of knowledge turns out to be the key when clarifying the concept of information. Our investigations produce the ‘missing link’ for the “severely neglected connection between theories of information and theories of knowledge” (Capurro/Hjørland). The results presented here clarify what information is and have the potential to provide answers to several of Floridi’s “open problems in the philosophy of information”.

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