Quantum probabilities and the conjunction principle

نویسندگان

  • Igor Douven
  • Jos Uffink
چکیده

A recent argument by Hawthorne and Lasonen-Aarnio purports to show that we can uphold the principle that competently forming conjunctions is a knowledgepreserving operation only at the cost of a rampant skepticism about the future. A key premise of their argument is that, in light of quantum-mechanical considerations, future contingents never quite have chance 1 of being true. We argue, by drawing attention to the order of magnitude of the relevant quantum probabilities, that the skeptical threat of Hawthorne and Lasonen-Aarnio’s argument

برای دانلود رایگان متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

ثبت نام

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

منابع مشابه

The Heart of an Image: Quantum Superposition and Entanglement in Visual Perception

We analyse the way in which the principle that ‘the whole is greater than the sum of its parts’ manifests itself with phenomena of visual perception. For this investigation we use insights and techniques coming from quantum cognition, and more specifically we are inspired by the correspondence of this principle with the phenomenon of the conjunction effect in human cognition. We identify entiti...

متن کامل

Quantum Probabilities and Maximum Entropy

Probabilities in quantum physics can be shown to originate from a maximum entropy principle.

متن کامل

The Inclusion-Exclusion Principle for IF-States

Applying two definitions of the union of IF-events, P. Grzegorzewski gave two generalizations of the inclusion-exclusion principle for IF-events.In this paper we prove an inclusion-exclusion principle for IF-states based on a method which can also be used to prove Grzegorzewski's inclusion-exclusion principle for probabilities on IF-events.Finally, we give some applications of this principle by...

متن کامل

Investigation of Temperature Effect in Landau-Zener Avoided Crossing

Considering a temperature dependent two-level quantum system, we have numerically solved the Landau-Zener transition problem. The method includes the incorporation of temperature effect as a thermal noise added Schrödinger equation for the construction of the Hamiltonian. Here, the obtained results which describe the changes in the system including the quantum states and the transition pro...

متن کامل

دینامیک جبری نوسانات بلوخ اتم‌های فراسرد در شبکه اپتیکی

The dynamic of a charged quantum particle in a system of arrays of quantum well in tight-binding model, under the effect an external field, in one and two dimension, is studied by algebraic approach. The persistent‎ (quantum confinement) and ‎transmission ‎(quantum teleportaion) probabilities of this quantum particle in terms of infinite-variable Bessel functions is calculated and the results i...

متن کامل

ذخیره در منابع من


  با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید

عنوان ژورنال:
  • Synthese

دوره 184  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012