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

[Boniface Lau]

> From: Ted Han
>  
> On 6/28/05, Boniface Lau <boniface_lau at compuserve.com> wrote:
> > 010101 does have a context - the mind that perceives it. For
> > example, when people are looking for a binary number and come
> > across 010101, they are likely to interpret that as a binary
> > number.
> 
> Alright this is something i'm qualified to speak to.
> 
> 010101 does not have context. Humans bring some contex to bear on
> the symbol string. The context in which the token is being
> interpreted doesn't belong to the token it belongs to the
> interpretation device.

Mind you, my point was that in most situations there is a context
when something is perceived. Whether the context belongs to the
perceived item or whether the context is "appropriate" was beside the
point.


Boniface