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There is another issue regarding the circularity between information (or data) and reality: The observation of reality produces phenomena (or events), whereas the reality is confirmed (or constituted) by phenomena. The ordinary concept of information presupposes reality as a source of information, whereas another type of information (known as it-from-bit) constitutes the reality from data (bits). In this paper, a monistic model, called the cognizers-system model (CS model), is employed to resolve these issues. In the CS model, observations (epistemic) and physical changes (ontic) are both unified as \u201ccognition\u201d, meaning a related state change. Information and probability, epistemic and ontic, are formalized and analyzed systematically using a common theoretical framework of the CS model or a related model. 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