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How to Reconcile Randomness with Physicists’ Belief that Every Theory Is Approximate: Informal Knowledge Is Needed

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Fuzzy Information Processing 2020 (NAFIPS 2020)

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In this paper, we show that physicists’ intuition about randomness is not fully consistent with their belief that every theory is only approximate. We also prove that there is no formal way to reconcile these two intuitions, this reconciliation has to be informal. Thus, there are fundamental reasons why informal knowledge is needed for describing the real world.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation grants 1623190 (A Model of Change for Preparing a New Generation for Professional Practice in Computer Science) and HRD-1242122 (Cyber-ShARE Center of Excellence).

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso, 500 W. University, 79968, El Paso, TX, USA

    Ricardo Alvarez, Christian Servin, Martine Ceberio & Vladik Kreinovich

  2. Computer Science and Information Technology Systems Department, El Paso Community College (EPCC), 919 Hunter Dr.m, El Paso, TX, 79915-1908, USA

    Nick Sims

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  1. Department of Mathematics, DigiPen Institute of Technology, Redmond, WA, USA

    Barnabás Bede

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA

    Martine Ceberio

  3. School of Engineering and Technology, University of Washington, Tacoma, WA, USA

    Martine De Cock

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA

    Vladik Kreinovich

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Alvarez, R., Sims, N., Servin, C., Ceberio, M., Kreinovich, V. (2022). How to Reconcile Randomness with Physicists’ Belief that Every Theory Is Approximate: Informal Knowledge Is Needed. In: Bede, B., Ceberio, M., De Cock, M., Kreinovich, V. (eds) Fuzzy Information Processing 2020. NAFIPS 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1337. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81561-5_31

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