January 22, 2003
Notetaker: Connie Tran
Defne the following words and describe how they
differ.
Information, Data, Belief, Faith, Opinion, Knowledge,
Wisdom.
To sum up Information: facts?; perceivable; learned,
not born with.
To sum up data: deals with numbers, recordable,
unprocessed; data essentially turns in to information.
Another view which is possible: data is an analysis of
information.
*Both information and beliefs are closesly related.
To sum up belief: it is something you THINK is true;
what you peceive from information; formed on one's own
from processed information; an interpretation.
To sum up Faith: There are different levels; it is a
trust in something one cannot prove; hope;
feeling-oriented belief; manifestation of beliefs;
unfaltering belief.
To sum up Opinion: large discusstion over the process
of when information becomes an opinion or a belief and
then in to faith. An opinion is argueably an
expression of faith.
Knowledge and Wisdom were not discussed because of
time restraints.