Definitions and Destinctions

[date written: 2007-01-04]

Nothing is Absolute.
Everything is nothing manifest.
Everything is Relative to Perspective.

Subjectivity is perspective orientation.
Objectivity is absolute orientation.

Perception is subjective observation.
Knowledge is objective observation.

Belief is unfounded postulation.
Hypothesis is postulation deduced from perception.

Data is perceptive measurements (absent of context).
Information is data given context.

Intelligence is the retention and comprehension of perception.
Wisdom is the retention and comprehension of hypotheses as they approach knowledge. Wisdom is attained by abstracting patterns from perception.

As existence, we are incapable of knowing, only perceiving.