Add to ORKGIn philosophy of language, the phenomena fundamental to human communication are routinely modeled in ways that do not require commitment to a concept of ???information??? separate from those of ???data,??? ???meaning,??? ???communication,??? ???knowledge,??? and ???relevance??? (inter alia). A taxonomy of conceptions of information may be developed that relies on commonly drawn philosophical distinctions (between linguistic, mental, and physical entities, between objects and events, and between particulars and universals); in such a taxonomy, no category requires the label ???information??? in order to be differentiated from others. It is suggested that a conception of information-as-relevance is currently the most productive of a...