
Indeterminacy in the World
Alessandro Torza(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 1. June 2023
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94 pages
978-1-009-05601-4 (ISBN)
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The way we represent the world in thought and language is shot through with indeterminacy: we speak of red apples and yellow apples without thereby committing to any sharp cutoff between the application of the predicate 'red' and of the predicate 'yellow'. But can reality itself be indeterminate? In other words, can indeterminacy originate in the mind-independent world, and not only in our representations? If so, can the phenomenon also arise at the microscopic scale of fundamental physics? Section 1 of this Element provides a brief overview of the question of indeterminacy. Section 2 discusses the thesis that the world is comprised of indeterminate objects, whereas Section 3 focuses on the thesis that there are indeterminate states of affairs. Finally, Section 4 is devoted to the case study of indeterminacy in quantum physics.
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
136 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-009-05601-4 (9781009056014)
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Content
1. Introduction; 2. Objects; 3. States of Affairs; 4. Quantum Physics; 5. Concluding remarks; References.