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| Determinism | Sokal | I 162 Determinism/Bricmont/Sokal: here one has to distinguish between determinism and predictability. >Predictions, >Theories. Determinism: depends on how nature behaves and is independent of us. >Despendency, >Independence, >observer relative. Predictability: depends partly on nature and partly on us. For example, the movement of the clock is unpredictable for us because we do not know the initial state. However, it would be wrong to claim that the movement of the watch is therefore no longer deterministic. >Initial conditions. E.g. Pendulum: without external force its movement is deterministic and not chaotic. If you exercise a periodic force, its movement can become chaotic and therefore much harder to predict - but is it no longer deterministic? >Chaos. |
Sokal I Alan Sokal Jean Bricmont Fashionabel Nonsense. Postmodern Intellectuals Abuse of Science, New York 1998 German Edition: Eleganter Unsinn. Wie die Denker der Postmoderne die Wissenschaften missbrauchen München 1999 Sokal II Alan Sokal Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science New York 1999 |
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