indeterminacy

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the quality of being vague and poorly defined

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"The acceptance of indeterminacy is the beginning of wisdom,” the hermit quoted. Robert Sheckley

But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy. Murray Gell-Mann

Although it is admitted that certain differences cannot be verified by experiment, we should not infer from this fact that they do not exist. ...we are accused of having confused subjective inability with objective indeterminacy. Hans Reichenbach

Not one word is said here of acausality, wave mechanics, indeterminacy relations, complementarity, ... etc. Why doesn't he talk about what he knows instead of trespassing on the professional philosopher's preserves? Ne sutor supra crepidam. Erwin Schrödinger

Now, what that means is that there is fundamental indeterminacy from quantum mechanics, but besides that there are other sources of effective indeterminacy. Murray Gell-Mann

According to quantum mechanics (particularly quantum indeterminacy ), no possible measurement distinguishes between the 4 different polarization states, as they are not all orthogonal. Source: Internet

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