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To: tacticalogic
I submitted only that it is an abstraction.

No you also stated this - "Information without data is dogma." and this "Without a mind to organize and analyze it, it's just data." In fact, data is by definition information. Look it up.

53 posted on 03/25/2011 4:06:18 AM PDT by AndrewC
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To: AndrewC
No you also stated this - "Information without data is dogma." and this "Without a mind to organize and analyze it, it's just data." In fact, data is by definition information. Look it up.

There are multiple definitions of "information" in the dictionary. In some contexts information and data are considered synonymous.

I submit that simply having a random collection of unorganized and unlabeled data does not provide information. It would be like running a phone book through a shredder. All the data is still there, but the organization and structure is lost. Until that structure and orgaization is restored, it arguably provides no information.

Do you find that unreasonable?

54 posted on 03/25/2011 4:26:43 AM PDT by tacticalogic
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