RE: [Sigia-l] Data, information, knowledge, wisdom

From: Boniface Lau (boniface_lau_at_compuserve.com)
Date: Thu Jun 30 2005 - 23:11:40 EDT

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> From: Ted Han
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> So, my point is that, unlike the tree that falls in the woods when
> no one is around to hear it, inputs genuinely -don't- have meaning
> unless there's someone there to supply the meaning

But people do not arbitrary invent a meaning regardless of what they
are seeing. When people see something written in a recognized date
format, they are not going to interpret that as a person's name.

Thus, a date remains as a date even though there is nobody around
because that date has some attributes that will likely lead the next
person that sees it to interpret it as a date.

Boniface

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