 The first objection has as a premise that it is part of the meaning of “explanation” that if one theory is more explanatory than another, the former must be more informative than the latter (see, e.g., van Fraassen 1983, Sect. 2). The alleged problem then is that it is “an elementary logical point that a more informative theory cannot be more likely to be true [and thus] attempts to describe inductive or evidential support through features that require information (such as ‘Inference to the Best Explanation’) must either contradict themselves or equivocate” (van Fraassen 1989, 192). The elementary logical point is supposed to be “most [obvious] … in the paradigm case in which one theory is an extension of another: clearly the extension has more ways of being false” (van Fraassen 1985, 280).