Search results for [Counterfactuals (Logic)] at NC Cardinal

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If only : how to turn regret into opportunity / by Roese, Neal J.(CARDINAL)389561;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-235) and index.

Subjects: Regret.; Counterfactuals (Logic); Self-actualization (Psychology);

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The science of can and can't : a physicist's journey through the land of counterfactuals / by Marletto, Chiara,author.; Deutsch, David,writer of foreword.;

Foreword / by David Deutsch -- A note on how to read this book -- Prelude -- Such stuff as dreams are made on -- Making sense -- Beyond laws of motion? -- La locanda della grotta -- Information -- Intermezzo veneziano -- Quantum information -- A flight with the luckdragon -- Knowledge -- The wind rises -- Work and heat -- Labyrinth -- A journey there and back again -- Alexandros."There is a vast class of things that science has so far almost entirely neglected. They are central to the understanding of physical reality both at an everyday level and at the level of the most fundamental phenomena in physics, yet have traditionally been assumed to be impossible to incorporate into fundamental scientific explanations. They are facts not about what is--the actual--but about what could be: counterfactuals. According to physicist Chiara Marletto, laws about things being possible or impossible may generate an alternative way of providing explanations. This fascinating, far-reaching approach holds promise for revolutionizing the way fundamental physics is formulated, but also for providing essential tools to face existing technological challenges, from delivering the next generation of information-processing devices, beyond the universal quantum computer, to designing AIs. Each chapter in the book delineates how an existing vexed open problem in science can be solved by this radically different approach; and it is augmented by short fictional stories that explicate the main point of the chapter. As Marletto demonstrates, contemplating what is possible can give us a more complete and hopeful picture of the physical world"--Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Science; Natural selection.; Counterfactuals (Logic);

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Virtual history : alternatives and counterfactuals / by Ferguson, Niall.(CARDINAL)350448;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-529) and index.Speculates what may have happened if nine major events did not occur, asking such questions as, "What if there had been no American Revoultion?" and "What if John F. Kennedy had lived?"

Subjects: Counterfactuals (Logic); Historiography.; History, Modern.; History; Imaginary histories.;

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The Pacific War and contingent victory : why Japanese defeat was not inevitable / by Myers, Michael W.,(Michael Warren),1951-author.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-186) and index.

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Imaginary histories.; Counterfactuals (Logic);

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Some trick : thirteen stories / by DeWitt, Helen,1957-author.(CARDINAL)702979;

For sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen DeWitt into the funniest, most yonder dimensions of possibility. Her jumping-off points might be statistics, romance, the art world's piranha tank, games of chance and games of skill, the travails of publishing, or success. "Look," a character begins to explain, laying out some gambit reasonably enough, even if facing a world of boomeranging counterfactuals, situations spinning out to their utmost logical extremes, and Rube Goldberg-like moving parts, where things prove "more complicated than they had first appeared" and "at 3 a.m. the circumstances seem to attenuate." In various ways, each tale carries DeWitt's signature poker-face lament regarding the near-impossibility of the life of the mind when one is made to pay to have the time for it, in a world so sadly "taken up with all sorts of paraphernalia superfluous, not to say impedimental, to ratiocination."

Subjects: Short stories.;

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