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WikiWherefore: Information Why
The World abounds in information in this "Information Age". The majority of the information seems to be information regarding what, and there is also a substantial amount of information regarding how. The news tells us "what" is happening. Articles tells us "how" to do something. But in the flood of information, particularly on the internet, there is a disproportionately small amount of information why. This page exists to serve as a small contribution to information "why". This page provides more meaning than fact, but that does not make it less "informational", or less true. The trouble with information why, or "wisdom", is not that it is less solid, or less true, or less absolute, than information what or how, but that it is harder to confirm, harder to discern. Opinions are not inferior to "facts", they are simply confirmed with more difficulty, and require a larger part of the human being to confirm - honesty, intuition, mystery. There is no basis for the claim that scientifically demonstrable "facts" are more true or certain than "wisdom", that is, philosophy. That claim is founded on an unfounded assumption that reality is logically determined, that reality is no more than matter under the laws of cause and effect. This assumption derives its roots not from faulty philosophy. The problem with much of Modernistic thinking is not that it is poorly gone about, but that the whole process is based on poor philosophy, on baseless assumptions that have since been taken for granted, forgotten, and have become unquestionable in the eyes of the majority. --Aaronsherman (talk) 22:31, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

==     The World abounds in information in this "Information Age". The majority of the information seems to be information regarding what, and there is also a substantial amount of information regarding how. The news tells us "what" is happening. Articles tells us "how" to do something. But in the flood of information, particularly on the internet, there is a disproportionately small amount of information why. This page exists to serve as a small contribution to information "why". This page provides more meaning than fact, but that does not make it less "informational", or less true. The trouble with information why, or "wisdom", is not that it is less solid, or less true, or less absolute, than information what or how, but that it is harder to confirm, harder to discern. Opinions are not inferior to "facts", they are simply confirmed with more difficulty, and require a larger part of the human being to confirm - honesty, intuition, mystery. There is no basis for the claim that scientifically demonstrable "facts" are more true or certain than "wisdom", that is, philosophy. That claim is founded on an unfounded assumption that reality is logically determined, that reality is no more than matter under the laws of cause and effect. This assumption derives its roots not from faulty philosophy. The problem with much of Modernistic thinking is not that it is poorly gone about, but that the whole process is based on poor philosophy, on baseless assumptions that have since been taken for granted, forgotten, and have become unquestionable in the eyes of the majority. ==

==     The World abounds in information in this "Information Age". The majority of the information seems to be information regarding what, and there is also a substantial amount of information regarding how. The news tells us "what" is happening. Articles tells us "how" to do something. But in the flood of information, particularly on the internet, there is a disproportionately small amount of information why. This page exists to serve as a small contribution to information "why". This page provides more meaning than fact, but that does not make it less "informational", or less true. The trouble with information why, or "wisdom", is not that it is less solid, or less true, or less absolute, than information what or how, but that it is harder to confirm, harder to discern. Opinions are not inferior to "facts", they are simply confirmed with more difficulty, and require a larger part of the human being to confirm - honesty, intuition, mystery. There is no basis for the claim that scientifically demonstrable "facts" are more true or certain than "wisdom", that is, philosophy. That claim is founded on an unfounded assumption that reality is logically determined, that reality is no more than matter under the laws of cause and effect. This assumption derives its roots not from faulty philosophy. The problem with much of Modernistic thinking is not that it is poorly gone about, but that the whole process is based on poor philosophy, on baseless assumptions that have since been taken for granted, forgotten, and have become unquestionable in the eyes of the majority. ==