 The history of the concept of information in modern philosophy is complicated. Probably starting in the fourteenth century the term “information” emerged in various developing European languages in the general meaning of “education” and “inquiry”. The French historical dictionary by Godefroy (1881) gives action de former, instruction, enquête, science, talent as early meanings of “information”. The term was also used explicitly for legal inquiries (Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) 2015). Because of this colloquial use the term “information” loses its association with the concept of “form” gradually and appears less and less in a formal sense in philosophical texts.