Unio mystica. Skabelse af en topos

Is Hahnemann's therapeutic system a mystica?

640 August 2012, Vol. 102, No. 8 SAMJ Is Hahnemann’s therapeutic system a mystica? To the Editor: I refer to the recent editorial by Professor Van Niekerk on traditional healers in which Hahnemann’s system, or homeopathic therapeutics (HTS), is termed a ‘mystica’, a religious belief.1 HTS arose out of therapeutic uncertainty – how to match, akin to a pass word, a therapy with a disease of a par...

Higher Topos Theory

Higher topos theory

Higher topos theory

Topos Theoretic Quantum Realism

Topos Quantum Theory (TQT) is standardly portrayed as a kind of ‘neo-realist’ reformulation of quantum mechanics. In this paper, we study the extent to which TQT can really be characterised as a realist formulation of the theory, and examine the question of whether the kind of realism that is provided by TQT satisfies the philosophical motivations that are usually associated with the search for...