The aim of the article is to analyze the contrasting relationships of concepts in philosophy and science and discuss the notions of progress and paradigm. We raise the hypothesis that concepts are connected to all traditional explanations. In this perspective, the concepts can be presented and represented, concomitantly, in the level of ideas and language. Based on a bibliographic review, we use the bricolage method for relating different theories. We indicate potential differences and epistemological limits in the analysis of progress in the paradigmatic context of the scientific and philosophical concept. Thus, we discuss the hypotheses of progress of concepts and notion of progress adopted for the concept-object of information in Information Science. First, we present a panoramic view of the concepts in philosophy. Next we raise the question of the progress of concepts and their relationship to language and paradigms. It may be concluded that the notion of paradigm, although it impacts the philosophical and scientific approaches of information, can be displaced from the epistemological field.
Information science; Concepts; Epistemology; Language; Paradigm