Information Content

The term information content is used to refer to the meaning of information as opposed to the form or carrier of the information. For example, the meaning that is conveyed in an expression (which may be a proposition) or document, which can be distinguished from the sounds or symbols or codes and carrier that physically form the expression or document. An information content is composed of a propositional content and an illocutionary force. See also Self-information

Famous quotes containing the words information and/or content:

    “Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    “Here form is content, content is form.”
    —Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)