“Information” as a state of an agent, i.e., as the result of the process of being informed. If one teaches a pupil the theorem of Pythagoras then, after this process is completed, the student can be said to “have the information about the theorem of Pythagoras”. In this sense the term “information” is the result of the same suspect form of substantiation of a verb (informare \(\gt\) informatio) as many other technical terms in philosophy (substance, consciousness, subject, object). This sort of term-formation is notorious for the conceptual difficulties it generates. Can one derive the fact that I “have” consciousness from the fact that I am conscious? Can one derive the fact that I “have” information from the fact that I have been informed? The transformation to this modern substantiated meaning seems to have been gradual and seems to have been general in Western Europe at least from the middle of the fifteenth century. In the renaissance a scholar could be referred to as “a man of information”, much in the same way as we now could say that someone received an education (Adriaans &amp; van Benthem 2008b; Capurro &amp; Hjørland 2003). In “Emma” by Jane Austen one can read: “Mr. Martin, I suppose, is not a man of information beyond the line of his own business. He does not read” (Austen 1815: 21).