從人文看資訊之二：從資訊到史料

Humanities and Information (II): Information, Meaning, Understanding and Materials for Historical Studies

本文是為通識教育寫的一系列論說文「從人文看資訊」中的第二篇，不是發表研究結果的論文。在這篇論說文中討論了兩個問題：其一，是史料與資訊的關係；其二，是比較了人文與科學這兩個領域，對待「意義」和「理解」這兩個命題，有什麼不同。本文中，常常有比較人文與科學異同的敘述片斷，是故本文也可視為比較人文與科學這兩個領域異同中的一部份資料，以供讀者參考。

This is a part of a series of essays designed for Humanities courses, not a research report. In this essay, two topics will be presented. Firstly, the relevancy between information and the materials for historical studies is discussed. Secondly, a comparative study of the structure of meaning and the ways of understanding both from the Humanities field and the Science field will be presented in more detail. And, this comparative study could be considered as a part of the comparative studies of the Humanities field and the Science field in general.