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Chemical thermodynamics --- fysicochemie --- 530.162 --- #WPLT:dd.Prof.F.Symons --- Principle of disordered phenomena. Brownian movement. Reversibility. Indeterminacy principle --- 530.162 Principle of disordered phenomena. Brownian movement. Reversibility. Indeterminacy principle

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This book examines philosophical approaches to linguistic vagueness, a puzzling feature of natural language that gives rise to the ancient Sorites Paradox and challenges classical logic and semantics.The Sorites, or Paradox of the Heap, consists in three claims: (1) One grain of sand does not make a heap. (2) One billion grains of sand do make a heap. (3) For any two amounts of sand differing by at most one grain: either both are heaps of sand, or neither one is. The third claim is rendered plausible by an initial conviction that vague predicates like 'heap' tolerate small changes. However, the repeated application of a tolerance principle to the second claim yields the further proposition that one grain of sand does make a heap - which contradicts claim number one. Consequently, many philosophers reject or modify tolerance principles for vague predicates. Inga Bones reassesses prominent responses to the Sorites and defends a Wittgensteinian dissolution of the paradox. She argues that vague predicates are, indeed, tolerant and discusses how this finding relates to the paradox itself, to the notion of validity and to the concept of a borderline case.

Paradox des Haufens --- Vagheit --- Unbestimmtheit --- Wittgenstein --- Philosophie der normalen Sprache --- Paradox of the Heap --- Vagueness --- Indeterminacy --- Ordinary Language Philosophy

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The way we represent the world in thought and language is shot through with indeterminacy: we speak of red apples and yellow apples without thereby committing to any sharp cutoff between the application of the predicate 'red' and of the predicate 'yellow'. But can reality itself be indeterminate? In other words, can indeterminacy originate in the mind-independent world, and not only in our representations? If so, can the phenomenon also arise at the microscopic scale of fundamental physics? Section 1 of this Element provides a brief overview of the question of indeterminacy. Section 2 discusses the thesis that the world is comprised of indeterminate objects, whereas Section 3 focuses on the thesis that there are indeterminate states of affairs. Finally, Section 4 is devoted to the case study of indeterminacy in quantum physics.

Indeterminacy (Linguistics) --- Metaphysics. --- Quantum theory. --- Quantum dynamics --- Quantum mechanics --- Quantum physics --- Physics --- Mechanics --- Thermodynamics --- Philosophy --- God --- Ontology --- Philosophy of mind --- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)

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Stochastic processes --- Finance --- Brownian motion processes --- Finances --- Mouvement brownien, Processus de --- Mathematical models --- Modèles mathématiques --- 519.2 --- 530.162 --- Probability. Mathematical statistics --- Principle of disordered phenomena. Brownian movement. Reversibility. Indeterminacy principle --- Brownian motion processes. --- Mathematical models. --- 530.162 Principle of disordered phenomena. Brownian movement. Reversibility. Indeterminacy principle --- 519.2 Probability. Mathematical statistics --- Modèles mathématiques --- Wiener processes --- Brownian movements --- Fluctuations (Physics) --- Markov processes

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Stochastic processes --- Mathematical physics --- Theory of relativity. Unified field theory --- Quantum mechanics. Quantumfield theory --- 530.162 --- Principle of disordered phenomena. Brownian movement. Reversibility. Indeterminacy principle --- 530.162 Principle of disordered phenomena. Brownian movement. Reversibility. Indeterminacy principle --- Brownian motion processes --- Mouvement brownien, Processus de --- Processus stochastiques --- Probabilités. --- Probabilities --- Mouvement brownien --- Relativité (physique)