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It does imply that. If the independent result (from Lines 4 to 9) doesn't convince you, can you come up with a concrete instance where “p & ~Kp” can b...
July 01, 2022 at 09:42
That's the contradiction. However it's not true that a proposition can be both knowable and unknowable is it?
July 01, 2022 at 04:15
It's not merely an assumption or stipulation though, it's the justifiable proposition that there is some particular truth that isn't presently known. ...
July 01, 2022 at 04:14
Fitch's paradox shows that a contradiction follows from KP and NonO. Per the law of non-contradiction, contradictions are false. Thus it's false that ...
July 01, 2022 at 00:43
The contradiction means that one of the premises is false (KP or NonO). Not that "p & ~Kp" is both knowable and unknowable. If KP is false, "p & ~Kp" ...
June 30, 2022 at 23:36
No. Line 3 of the SEP proof asserts that "p & ~Kp" is knowable, i.e., "<>K(p & ~Kp)". "<>K(p & ~Kp)" is then subsequently proved to be false. Therefor...
June 30, 2022 at 21:25
To clarify, p is the unknown truth and that p has the characteristics of being unknown and true is expressed by the conjunction "p & ~Kp". So to summa...
June 30, 2022 at 09:39
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June 30, 2022 at 04:09
Yes, which is what I said above ("the former is unknown"). Because that's what the proof shows. "<>K(p & ~Kp)" (line 3 in the SEP proof) is proved to ...
June 30, 2022 at 04:06
No. Perhaps we can - who knows? But they are not the unknowable truths that Fitch's paradox expresses. It's the latter. In the SEP proof, line 1 asser...
June 29, 2022 at 07:38
Yes. Yes. Though note there is nothing in Fitch's argument that precludes humans from coming to know the unknown (but knowable) truths.
June 29, 2022 at 06:27
Because Alice can (speculatively) say of an unknown truth, t, that "t is true and no-one knows that t is true". Alice's statement will, in turn, be an...
June 29, 2022 at 06:02
Perhaps see here (bold mine):
June 29, 2022 at 05:55
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June 29, 2022 at 01:28
OK, though it's not clear to me what you are objecting to. No. False propositions are unknowable in the sense that you can't know what is false. And, ...
June 29, 2022 at 01:26
Goldbach's conjecture was just an example. The point is that if there is any unknown truth (i.e., if we are not collectively omniscient), then there i...
June 28, 2022 at 23:32
Yes, or else that the verificationist holds a contradictory view. Yes. OK, though from SEP again:
June 28, 2022 at 23:30
Well, one might prefer to think they are omniscient. ;-) More seriously, presumably people who have considered Fitch's paradox do accept that. But fro...
June 28, 2022 at 13:31
The basic idea is that if there's a truth that isn't known then that implies a related truth that isn't knowable. Suppose there is some statement t th...
June 28, 2022 at 13:10
OK, but I still didn't get a clear "yes" or "no". :smile: Yes. It's the case that human beings construct the experiments, observe the results, theoriz...
June 24, 2022 at 23:59
OK. So, on your view, a human being is also implicit in mathematical and logical statements?
June 24, 2022 at 22:16
:up: Do you apply that to mathematical and logical statements as well?
June 24, 2022 at 09:51
Would that be something that we are unable to describe using ordinary or specialized language? We describe human beings and their activities in terms ...
June 24, 2022 at 07:51
Certainly it does. Do you see that your questions assume the very antithesis at issue? To give a familiar example from Ryle, is a university "Nothing ...
June 23, 2022 at 22:21
No. See the J.L. Austin quote above. Just as 'sense-data' and 'material things' live by taking in each other's washing, so too do 'matter' and 'mind'.
June 23, 2022 at 01:14
From J.L. Austin: @"Banno" and @"Tate" get to the crux of it here: So how do we avoid returning to it? @"Michael" shows how. Note that there are no co...
June 23, 2022 at 00:52
:up: Thanks for a great discussion!
June 15, 2022 at 06:42
Yes, that's correct. It's only measurement that is (sometimes) random. To see this, take a look at this quantum coin example. In terms of a quantum co...
June 15, 2022 at 01:18
Yes, see the no-communication theorem.
June 15, 2022 at 00:37
:up: Hopefully these AI's get out of beta before they start running the world. Though, on second thoughts:
June 15, 2022 at 00:14
It's about the delayed choice quantum eraser and the philosophical or foundational implications - a discussion which may sometimes require recourse to...
June 13, 2022 at 06:41
Here's what GPT-3 (from OpenAI, Microsoft) thought of your comment. Our resulting conversation: GPT-3: There is a lot of research that still needs to ...
June 13, 2022 at 02:38
It follows from their joint entangled (Bell) state. Which, written in the z-basis (ignoring square root of two factors), is: |00\rangle + |11\rangle T...
June 13, 2022 at 02:23
No, the signal pattern never shows interference regardless of what happens to the idler photons. Interference is only revealed when the idler photons ...
June 11, 2022 at 09:46
Yes. Yes. Why would that be? Note, however, that the two phase subsets combined and the two path subsets combined do produce the same (non-interferenc...
June 10, 2022 at 07:20
When the idler photon (qubit) is measured in the z-basis or the x-basis, then we can infer the path or the phase of the signal photon respectively. Ma...
June 09, 2022 at 22:01
This information is encoded (or, better, implicit) at the time of entanglement, i.e, when the entangled pair of photons are created at the BBO in Figu...
June 07, 2022 at 23:49
See Figure 1-3 and Figure 1-4 of Feynman's lectures. Figure 1-4 (c) (path information known) shows that photons can strike anywhere on the back screen...
June 06, 2022 at 02:15
No, those two beam splitters just reduce the probability of all the idler photons striking D2. If the BSa and BSb beam splitters were removed, then th...
June 05, 2022 at 00:30
It doesn't matter what happens to the idler photons, the signal pattern will remain the same. From the Wikipedia page (especially the bolded part): Th...
June 04, 2022 at 12:43
Fair enough. The important (non-spooky) point with the delayed-choice quantum eraser experiment is that the original observed pattern for the signal p...
June 03, 2022 at 07:31
I don't think that's the case. From SEP (though note they do discuss a retrocausal variant there):
June 03, 2022 at 07:25
Measurement doesn't affect anything in the past. In the delayed-choice quantum eraser experiment, the original observed pattern remains the same regar...
June 01, 2022 at 07:51
Yes, for macroscopic systems at low velocities in weak gravitational fields, QM and relativity approximate classical Newtonian mechanics (as an emerge...
May 31, 2022 at 01:58
:up: As Fuchs implies with "us-within-the-world", there's no view from nowhere. Just to be precise here, measurement involves an interaction between a...
May 31, 2022 at 01:25
:up: Below is the broader quote that that phrase was taken from, describing Bell's Theorem. Both locality and realism are technical terms. Don't equat...
May 31, 2022 at 01:18
:up: Here's some more from Peres that argues for the locality point-of-view.
May 30, 2022 at 23:35
Spot on. As it happens, most physicists choose locality over realism . This rejection of realism (precisely, counterfactual definiteness) is well summ...
May 29, 2022 at 12:26
A representation that was later used was binary-coded decimal. That required four transistors per digit, for a total of twelve transistors for a 3-dig...
February 03, 2022 at 01:25
Yes, and I see now that you're referring to qubit coherence. I found an interesting summary of the historical and projected improvements in coherence ...
February 03, 2022 at 01:24