Physicists generally don't spend much time on distinguishing among
philosophical "isms". However, since my New Year lecture was on an "ism", I
can't very well avoid them!
Gordana speaks of Instrumentalist Epistemology and Epistemological
Instrumentalism. As I understand it, instrumentalism was a
Dear All,
I think I have discovered what it was that was bothering me about QBism: it was
only the particular 'detour' through atomic physics that Hans made, that is,
one that requires Bayesian probability to describe its terms (see New Year
Lecture). Here are two key tenets of QBism, however,
Dear Christophe,
I tried to qualify my use of "meaning", but perhaps I wasn't clear enough.
In my example I wanted to say that I(A;B) is a quantity that can be
considered a "proto-meaning" of B to A. Another way of saying the same
thing is that I(A;B) quantifies A in the context of B.
I should h
Dear Hans, Joe, and colleagues,
"Healing the subject-object divide" from the perspective of personal
experiences as advocated here, seems let's say "meta-scientific" to me. I
don't think that there is a logic "in reality". Analytical distinctions and
arguments (instead of personal experiences)
