information - definition

To inform is to ‘give form to’.

What do we mean by ‘give form to’?
If we were to think of ‘giving form’ in the context of design, this would probably make more sense.
Consider, an architect is designing a house. At some point, the architect starts the process with a blank sheet of paper and as she sketches the beginings of a house emerges. We could say, ‘the house literally begins to take form’.

information: that which gives a new way of looking at things

In terms of being ‘informed’, we can say that the information ‘gives form to a new coherence’ or a new way of looking at things. If ‘information’ does not give us a new coherence, then perhaps it is only data.