[Sigia-l] data as information?

[Ted Han]

On 6/30/05, Ed Housman <em_housman at yahoo.com> wrote:

> When people have a different perspective on a word, that's called semantics.
> And we begin clashing over belief systems.

Semantics implies that there is only a difference in meaning.  That is
not the case here, people are claiming that there is a significant
ontological distinction that should be made, not simply that data and
information -mean- two different things.

-T