[FRIAM] The fruits of abduction

[Prof David West]

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

davew

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019, at 8:40 AM, lrudolph at meganet.net 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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