Msida, Malta

Knowledge Information

Bachelor's
Language: EnglishStudies in English
University website: www.um.edu.mt/
Information
Information is any entity or form that provides the answer to a question of some kind or resolves uncertainty. It is thus related to data and knowledge, as data represents values attributed to parameters, and knowledge signifies understanding of real things or abstract concepts. As it regards data, the information's existence is not necessarily coupled to an observer (it exists beyond an event horizon, for example), while in the case of knowledge, the information requires a cognitive observer.
Knowledge
Knowledge is a familiarity, awareness, or understanding of someone or something, such as facts, information, descriptions, or skills, which is acquired through experience or education by perceiving, discovering, or learning.
Information
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929), American Science Fiction author. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ch. 3 (1969).
Knowledge
They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
Thomas Brackett Reed, referring to two of his colleagues in the House of Representatives.—Samuel W. McCall, The Life of Thomas Brackett Reed, chapter 21, p. 248 (1914).
Knowledge
All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.
Aristotle, Posterior Analytics (71a 1), tr. by Jonathan Barnes (1984/95) Other translations of this quote: All doctrine, and all intellectual discipline, arise from pre-existent knowledge, O.F. Owen (1853) All communications of knowledge from teacher to pupil by way of reasoning pre-suppose some pre-existing knowledge., E.S. Bouchier (1901) All instruction given or received by way of argument proceeds from pre-existent knowledge, G.R.G. Mure (1928). Other translations of this quote:
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