Erwin Schrödinger’s Birthday

**unixken** · 13th August 13, 03:28 PM

Originally Posted by O'Searcaigh

Formally (syntactically) yes, whether the meaning of 'is' is an is of attribution (material implication) or is an is of identity (bi-conditional) because “that that is 'is' is that that is not 'not is' if and only if that that is 'not is' is that that is not 'is'” -- otherwise known as the “Law of Transposition.” However, informally (semantically) it all depends on what the meanings of all the is’s are and especially if the ‘is not’ is an is not of specific denial or an is not of nothingness and hence semantically open to a fallacy of ambiguity (equivocation). At least that’s my take on it as a student of nothing!

You SO just reminded me of the "Romans, go home!" scene, from "The Life of Brian". LOL

**ForresterModern** · 13th August 13, 06:14 PM

Might be interesting to know when the cat's birthday is, eh? Don't have to worry about the second date on his tombstone since nobody will ever know until somebody gets up the guts to open the darned box.

**KD Burke** · 14th August 13, 06:38 AM

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Cats in boxes....not sure I approve of that!

**O'Searcaigh** · 14th August 13, 06:54 AM

Originally Posted by unixken

You SO just reminded me of the "Romans, go home!" scene, from "The Life of Brian". LOL

Now write that 100 times before morning or... Oh yea, and what have the Romans done for us? -- love it!!!

**crash** · 14th August 13, 07:48 PM

How many people here would not even know who Schrodinger or his cat were if not for Big Bang Theory?

**xman** · 14th August 13, 09:07 PM

... mew ...

**EagleJCS** · 15th August 13, 02:20 AM

Originally Posted by crash

How many people here would not even know who Schrodinger or his cat were if not for Big Bang Theory?

I would... I've known about Schroedinger (and his cat) since the late 1980's.

**KD Burke** · 15th August 13, 03:17 AM

Originally Posted by crash

How many people here would not even know who Schrodinger or his cat were if not for Big Bang Theory?

Lemaitre was responsible for the idea of the Big Bang, not Schrodinger.

**The Monk** · 15th August 13, 05:20 AM

He's talking about the TV show "Big Bang Theory".

**O'Searcaigh** · 15th August 13, 08:42 AM

Originally Posted by EagleJCS

I would... I've known about Schroedinger (and his cat) since the late 1980's.

Since 1967 here. Even that is a bit late since Schroedinger proposed it in 1935 as a reductio ad absurdum "refutation" of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory; somehting a lot of people seem to overlook. If a so-called "wave function" is a "probabilstic wave" (statistical range) and a "wave colapse" is simply the detemination of the probability of a specific event from within that range by observation, then the whole thing becomes an example of the fallacies of hypostization and division. (cf: "Quantum Bayesianism"). I know, more than you wanted to know, but.....