... its home in the context of communication theory. We are c oncerned with anotion of quantity of infor mation; and the notion of quantity of information is cashed outin terms of the resources ... mutandis, for an attempt to explain possession of in-formation in terms of containing information propositionally. Somebody is required toread, store, dec ode and encode the various propositions, ... my books contain information and knowledge, I do not.To contain information in this sense is to be used to store information, expressed in theform of propositions7, or in the case of computers,...