Re: White Rabbits and QM

1999-11-13 Thread David Lloyd-Jones
Christopher Maloney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted: To: everything-list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 13, 1999 10:25 PM Subject: Re: White Rabbits and QM > Russell Standish wrote: > > Introduction > > Wigner[8] once remarked on ``the unreasonable effectiveness of > > mathematics'', enca

Re: Universal prior - Go FORTH and Run Backward

1999-11-13 Thread Marchal
Russell Standish wrote: >Thanks for the ref. Word files can be converted easily into postscript >(or some people can also convert it into PDF - same diff). However, it >would be better for you to convert the file and ship the postscript, >rather than shipping the Word file as different versions o

Re: Universal prior - Go FORTH and Run Backward

1999-11-13 Thread Marchal
David Lloyd-Jones wrote: >Marchal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> I have still a question for Russell, what is the meaning of >> giving a "physical existence" to a mathematical structure ? This is >> not at all a clear statement for me. >> > >There is a tendency for sciences to speak in the me