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Springer, Dordrecht

2017

427 Pages

ISBN 978-3-319-47369-7

Knowledge and time

Hans Primas

Edited by Harald Atmanspacher

This is a unique volume by a unique scientist, which combines conceptual, formal, and engineering approaches in a way that is rarely seen. Its core is the relation between ways of learning and knowing on the one hand and different modes of time on the other. Partial Boolean logic and the associated notion of complementarity are used to express this relation, and mathematical tools of fundamental physics are used to formalize it. Along the way many central philosophical problems aretouched and addressed, above all the mind-body problem. Completed only shortly before the death of the author, the text has been edited and annotated by the author's close collaborator Harald Atmanspacher.

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Primas, H. (2017). Knowledge and time, Springer, Dordrecht.

Table of Contents

Introduction

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3-10

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Boolean descriptions

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11-21

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Non-boolean descriptions

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23-52

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Rationality and creativity

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53-72

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Bottom-up approaches in physics

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91-153

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Top-down approaches in physics

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155-181

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Matter, mind, and time

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185-210

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Temporal groups and algebras

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211-241

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The relevance of sequential time

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309-351

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