Piaget, Probability, Causality, and Contradiction

Local Causality, Probability and Explanation

In papers published in the 25 years following his famous 1964 proof John Bell refined and reformulated his views on locality and causality. Although his formulations of local causality were in terms of probability, he had little to say about that notion. But assumptions about probability are implicit in his arguments and conclusions. Probability does not conform to these assumptions when quantu...

Causality From Probability

Causality and Probability in the Sciences

Quantum probability assignment limited by relativistic causality

Quantum theory has nonlocal correlations, which bothered Einstein, but found to satisfy relativistic causality. Correlation for a shared quantum state manifests itself, in the standard quantum framework, by joint probability distributions that can be obtained by applying state reduction and probability assignment that is called Born rule. Quantum correlations, which show nonlocality when the sh...

Excitatory or Inhibitory: A New Semantic Orientation Extracts Contradiction and Causality from the Web

We propose a new semantic orientation, Excitation, and its automatic acquisition method. Excitation is a semantic property of predicates that classifies them into excitatory, inhibitory and neutral. We show that Excitation is useful for extracting contradiction pairs (e.g., destroy cancer ⊥ develop cancer) and causality pairs (e.g., increase in crime ⇒ heighten anxiety). Our experiments show th...