People say: "This sounds true" and the word "sounds" should be
emphasized.
3. Comprehensiveness - Information will not be considered transparent,
nor will it be judged reliable if it is partial. It must incorporate
all the aspects of the world to which it relates, or else state
explicitly what has been omitted and why (which is tantamount to
including it, in the first place). A bit of information is embedded in
a context and constantly interacts with it. Additionally, its various
modules and content elements consistently and constantly interact with
each other. A missing part implies ignorance of interactions and
epiphenomena, which might crucially alter the interpretation of the
information. Partiality renders information valueless. Needless to say,
that I am talking about RELEVANT parts of the information. There are
many other segments of it, which are omitted because their influence is
negligible (the idealization process), or because it is so great that
they are common knowledge.
4. Organization - This, arguably, is the most important aspect of
information. It is what makes information comprehensible. It includes
the spatial and temporal (historic) context of the information, its
interactions with its context, its inner interactions, as we described
earlier, its structure, the rules of decision (grammar and syntax) and
the rules of interpretation (semantics, etc.
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