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en-wikipedia-org-991		Fred Dretske - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	3005	436	60	Frederick Irwin "Fred" Dretske (/ˈdrɛtski/; December 9, 1932 – July 24, 2013) was an American philosopher noted for his contributions to epistemology and the philosophy of mind.[2] The word came later."[8] Information, understood in Dretske's sense, is something that exists as an objective and mind-independent feature of the natural world and can be quantified. Dretske's work on belief begins in the last third of Knowledge and the Flow of Information,[11] but the theory changed again in the book that followed, Explaining Behavior (1988). In Naturalizing the Mind Dretske argues that when a brain state acquires, through natural selection, the function of carrying information, then it is a mental representation suited (with certain provisos) to being a state of consciousness. In addition to the subjects tackled in Dretske's book-length projects, he was also known as a leading proponent, along with David Armstrong and Michael Tooley, of the view that laws of nature are relations among universals.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-991.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-991.txt