Abstract

GONZALEZ SUAREZ, Enrique. Scientific knowledge and scientific information. ACIMED [online]. 2006, vol.14, n.6, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1024-9435.

The methodological inconsistency of the pyramidal conception of the correlation between scientific information and scientific knowledge is established. The concepts reflex and information, scientific knowledge and scientific information are analysed. Generally, the information is defined as that part of reflex that may be transmitted and objetivized (reflected variety). On this basis, the difference between the concepts “scientific knowledge” and “scientific information” is examined.The scientific knowledge is defined as the adequate reflex of reality taking a linguistic form (it is also a definition of scientific information in a wide sense). The definition of scientific information is exposed as the transmitted scientific knowledge, since it is used in Information Science and in the scientific-informative activity.

Keywords : Reflex; model; information; knowledge; scientific knowledge; scientific information.