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10. The information associated with a description depends on an observer's ability
to draw inferences from this description.
10.1 “Necessity” arises from the ability to make infallible deductions.

10.2 “Chance” arises from the inability to make infallible inductions.

11. The environment contains no information. The environment is as it is.

12. The environment is experienced as the residence of objects, stationary, in
motion, or changing (Proposition 1).

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