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A list of Citizendium articles, and planned articles, about Information.
See also changes related to Information, or pages that link to Information or to this page or whose text contains "Information".

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]

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  • Context [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 Context (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
  • 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]

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