The scope of the concept of information and the future of information science

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://jios.foi.hr/index.php/jios/article/view/1124" target="_blank" >https://jios.foi.hr/index.php/jios/article/view/1124</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.31341/jios.43.1.5" target="_blank" >10.31341/jios.43.1.5</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The scope of the concept of information and the future of information science

Original language description

The key concept of information science is the concept of information which is tied to a number of complications. The main problem is that there is no definition of this concept. The purpose of this article is an analysis of the concept of information from the position of classical logic. The main method of the article is a conceptual analysis. First, we briefly deal with the overview of the concepts of information, with concepts and their definition as such and with the scope of the concept of information. Then, we provide an analysis of 31 important definitions of the concept of information which were developed within the scope of information science and related fields, and we consider relations between the concept of information and the concepts in other disciplines. Conceptual analysis of the concept of information leads to the conclusion that information is probably a concept that somehow addresses the entire reality, thus that it is a term, which is in the classical logic described as transcendental. This fact, in the view of the fact that information science is a special field, seems to be a serious methodological problem. Problems associated with the broadness of the concept of information have three possible solutions: transformation of information science into the universal science, narrowing the concept of information to a special term, or replacement of the concept of information by a different one. At the end of the article,we briefly point out our solution to the problem.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50803 - Information science (social aspects)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Information and Organizational Sciences

ISSN

1846-3312

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

43

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

HR - CROATIA

Number of pages

26

Pages from-to

73-98

UT code for WoS article

000472601100006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85068825364