Abstract
In everyday interactions, when people assert that they "transfer information" or "refer some knowledge", this is unavoidably done through 'texts' in a broad sense. That is also so in transferring new findings or ideas as 'scientific information' and integrating it into the relevant 'specialized knowledge'. The scientific phenomena and researchers' actions are presented through scientific texts. It has been already clarified, however, that the relationship between the former and the latter is asymmetric. This study tries to show the variability in the explanations in two different texts (i.e. original articles and author abstracts in medical science), both of which concern the very same scientific phenomena and researchers' actions. Analyzing by propositions and modality in these texts, it is shown that they present two different versions of scientific phenomena and researchers' actions. This means that we need to explore the relationship between scientific texts and their source phenomena, when we use the former for handling 'information' and 'knowledge'.
