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To support this thesis, I adopt three different approaches. First, I present a series of concrete cases that challenge our commonsensical belief that information is a real entity. Second, I apply Eleaticism (the principle that entities lacking causal efficacy do not exist). Finally, I provide a mathematical derivation showing that information reduces to probability and is therefore unnecessary both ontologically and epistemically. In conclusion, I maintain that information is a causally redundant epistemic construct that does not exist fundamentally, regardless of its remarkable epistemic convenience. What, then, is information? 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