ABSTRACT
Information is produced as certain possibilities are realized to the exclusion of others within a matrix of possibility. Moreover, the greater the number of possibilities that get ruled out, the greater the amount of information that gets produced (recall chapter 4). It follows that information can be measured. Fred Dretske puts it this way: “Information theory identifies the amount of information associated with, or generated by, the occurrence of an event (or the realization of a state of affairs) with the reduction in uncertainty, the elimination of possibilities, represented by that event or state of affairs.”1
