From: "William Conger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "Certainty"
Did you notice that I said probabilities stand in for facts in some
sciences (soft sciences)? Standing in for is an as-if situation, never
equivalent to, but serving in place of.
WC
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Not just soft sciences, but physics. "Generally, quantum mechanics does not
assign definite values to observables. Instead, it makes predictions about;
probablility distributions that is, the probability of obtaining each of the
possible outcomes from measuring an observable."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics
As I understand Quantum Mechanics, the best description we are able to make
(statement of fact) about some kinds of events is, even in theory, a
proposition in the form of a probability.
Mike Mallory
