Information/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Philosophy of science [r]: Philosophical study of the assumptions, foundations, and implications of science. ^[e]
• Information theory [r]: Theory of the probability of transmission of messages with specified accuracy when the bits of information constituting the messages are subject, with certain probabilities, to transmission failure, distortion, and accidental additions. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Context (concept) [r]: A concept describing a relation between different kinds of information. ^[e]
• Data (general) [r]: "Pieces of information", especially numbers or quantities ^[e]
• Knowledge [r]: On one common account by philosophers, justified, true belief; often used in a looser way by everyone else to mean any truth or belief, and also a whole body of truth or a whole system of belief. ^[e]
• Noise (information theory) [r]: Stochastic fluctuations of energy levels within a physical system. ^[e]
• Signal (information theory) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Signal-to-noise ratio [r]: A dimensionless number expressing the proportion of useful signal in a communications channel, the remaining content being noise. The higher the ratio, the better the quality. ^[e]
• Information overflow [r]: An alternative term for information overload. ^[e]

Other related topics

• Astronomy [r]: The study of objects and processes in the observable universe, e.g. stars, planets, comets or asteroids. ^[e]
• Civil society [r]: The space for social activity outside the market, state and household; the arena of uncoerced collective action around shared interests, purposes and values. ^[e]
• Commons [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Commons (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
• Computer [r]: A machine that executes a sequence of instructions. ^[e]
• Cryptography [r]: A field at the intersection of mathematics and computer science that is concerned with the security of information, typically the confidentiality, integrity and authenticity of some message. ^[e]
• Encyclopedia [r]: A point of reference for structured knowledge. ^[e]
• History of cryptography [r]: The development, since antiquity, of means of concealing communications from other than the intended recipient ^[e]
• Journalism [r]: Practice of writing about daily events of interest to people - politics, international affairs, sports, etc. ^[e]
• Language (general) [r]: A type of communication system, commonly used in linguistics, computer science and other fields to refer to different systems, including 'natural language' in humans, programming languages run on computers, and so on. A wider definition of language - what counts as a language and what doesn't - is a difficult philosophical topic, deserving an article in its own right. ^[e]
• Library [r]: Collection of books and periodicals. ^[e]
• Life [r]: Living systems, of which biologists seek the commonalities distinguishing them from non-living systems. ^[e]
• Management Information Systems [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Organism [r]: An individual living individual: a complex, adaptive physical system that acts a integrated unit that sustains metabolism and reproduces progeny that resemble it. ^[e]
• Origin of life [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Pragmatics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Publishing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Quantum mechanics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Radio [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Reading (process) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Steganography [r]: Add brief definition or description