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Methodology vs. Technology Information and gender of angels

The frightful complexity of the notion of information should it encourage us to avoid any debate about it considering it can give rise to discussions Byzantine? I think quite the contrary it should encourage us to try to master some basic aspects without claiming to have access to any truth about the sex of angels.

This reflection was inspired by a little "parable" found in a signed commentary "LG58" about an article by Robert Guillaumot published March 2, 2008 on the blog Les Echos, entitled The relevance of sources in danger .

"On May 29, 1453 is a Tuesday."

The source of this information is reliable?

Undoubtedly, if we rely on the reputation of the Institute of Celestial Mechanics and Computation ephemeris ( IMCCE ) and / or its supervisory CNRS, Ministry of Education, CNES.

This information is reliable?

Not at all, you're not unhappy, those who claim they are just amateurs who disgrace the profession! This day is weighted according to the Julian calendar, replaced the aftermath of Thursday, October 4, 1582 by Friday, October 15, 1582 of the Gregorian calendar. The weekday schedule in the latter is not at all the same!

This information is relevant?

You understand my little gentleman, should perhaps tell me what you want to do this if you want me to respond!

That day, the 20th day of Jumada-l-ula year 857, while no chapel could no to admit its truth about the sex of angels, Sultan Mehmet He says "the Conqueror" going breaches of the walls of what is never be called Byzantium .

Beyond the joke which could be thought at first approach it aims to denounce the futility of this debate, we must wonder about the merits (I should say the relevance J) of this first analysis, and a lingering little about the moral of the story. We can draw three lessons that I think deserve to be widely pondered in the context of any discussion on the concept of information and actors that surround the great theater of the mind. Sources, reasoning, sense, education, speech communication, are all dressed in costumes made true and false in reality or fiction, which can be attempted to judge the relevance, accuracy, or reliability.

first lesson, a reliable source may submit a proposal accurate, but incomplete information that give the correctness of the interpretation may be called into question (here, the proposal needs to be supplemented issued by a reference to the calendar to represent a true information).

education Second, unlike a proposal, information is neither true nor false, but only complete or incomplete. Only interpretation that gives rise to a proposal may be submitted to the criterion of truth. Information will be known just enough to indicate that the meaning (interpretation) that we can give to its content. The information thus meets a need for meaning, but can not be confused with the meaning it carries itself.

Third education, relevance has meaning only in relation to a question, answer or such information is or is not relevant to the need it fills. Information will be considered relevant to the meaning it carries and the need it satisfied.

This notion of relevance is even more central intelligence that it differs from information in that it responds to a need to know to do that fully characterizes: the information is just information, just in time, the service of right action . Much more than the criteria of reliability, truth or accuracy, moreover very difficult to evaluate is that of relevance (or narrowly indicating adjustment required), which must be taken into account in the Intelligence Assessment.


Without becoming overly hopefully in the tétratrichotomie that some people will not fail to reproach me, these lessons seem to me important to identify to better understand the many difficulties in handling and processing of the raw material that is so sensitive information, especially its Qualification (value, sensitivity). They illustrate the need to do is look at throughout the scope of information, which can range in theory from the notion of linguistic meaning (to the exclusion of the signified which is of the proposal) until the basic notion of sign to which introducing semiotics, beyond the signifier and the referent stimulus.


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