Re: The fruits of abduction

Posted by Nick Thompson on
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Ah, the excluded middle strikes again:

 

"...was an intuition without a precise justification..."

 

Who ever said that justification had to be precise? 

 

Can there not be probable justification? 

 

You hear a sharp noise as you are walking in the street and you duck.  The chances that that small motion will actually save you from any harm are one in a million, yet, hey!, the cost is minimal and the potential gain is high. 

 

By the way, speaking of ducks, how do you tell if your doctor is a bad doctor. 

 

Well, you ask him a difficult medical question, and if he ducks, he’s a quack.

 

Nick

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Friam [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Prof David West
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2019 9:21 AM
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The fruits of abduction

 

and, is an ansatz, more or less, a formalized metaphor?

 

davew

 

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019, at 8:40 AM, [hidden email] wrote:

> > The problem is that Born’s rule was not really more than a smart

> > guess —

> >> there was no fundamental reason that led Born to propose it. “It

> >> was an intuition without a precise justification,” said Adán

> >> Cabello <https://personal.us.es/adan/home.htm>, a quantum theorist

> >> at the University of Seville in Spain.

>

> Isn't that what an "Ansatz" is?  (A quick Googling suggests maybe not.

> But it seems similar to me...)

>

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