The Mathematics of Non-Individuality
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چکیده
“The development of the foundations of physics in the twentieth century has taught us a serious lesson. Creating and understanding these foundations turned out to have very little to do with the epistemological abstractions which were of such importance to the twentieth century critics of the foundations of mathematics: finiteness, consistency, constructibility, and, in general, the Cartesian notion of intuitive clarity. Instead, completely unforeseen principles moved into the spotlight: complementarity, and the nonclassical, probabilistic truth function. The electron is infinite, capricious, and free, and does not at all share our love for algorithms.”
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