Re: Information, Data, taxonomy of knowing

[Al Viswanathan <alv1@gte.net>]

"Prevette, Steven S" wrote on 11 September 2003:
> 
> I found a nice paper on the subject at
> http://www.systems-thinking.org/dikw/dikw.htm which makes use of Dr.
> Ackoff's definitions.
> 

Thanks for the paper.  While reading the paper I was reminded of what
Don Wheeler  has said, namely, "no data have meaning apart from their
context". So does it follow that no  "information, knowledge,
understanding, and wisdom" also have meaning apart from their context?

Is it  possible that within their context ,"data, information,
knowledge, understanding, and wisdom" interact together as a system?

Al Viswanathan
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