Information and Knowledge in Epistemology Perspective

Author

Dr. Wendi Zarman, M.Si

Abstrak

The objective of this research is to confirm the definition of knowledge and information and their relationship in epistemology perspective. In daily use, information is often wrongly perceived or even confused as knowledge. This confusion may lead people to presume that having information implies having knowledge which is incorrect. In the epistemology perspective, information and knowledge does not always refer to the same meaning. We analyzed the Plato's definition on knowledge and Dretske's view on information and discussed their relationship to confirm each concept place in epistemology. We concluded that information and knowledge exists only in the presence of human beings. In addition, we also affirmed that information can be considered as knowledge as long as the recipient succeed to acquire the meaning indicated by the information symbols.