[FRIAM] The fruits of abduction

[Nick Thompson]

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/

 

 

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From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Prof David West
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and, is an ansatz, more or less, a formalized metaphor?

 

davew

 

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