Packet 5: Tossup 17

Robert Nozick named his view that truth is not timeless in analogy to a concept from this field in his last book, Invariances. Independently of C. S. Pierce, this field inspired Karl Popper to describe “generating conditions” that have a “propensity” of producing outcomes. (-5[1])David Deutsch modified a thought experiment from a paper in this field called (15[1])“Remarks on the Mind-Body Question,” (15[2])in which one asks a (15[1])(*) friend to perform an experiment and report the result. (10[4])The “Transformative (10[1])Hermeneutics” (10[3])of an extension (10[1])of this field (10[2])title Alan Sokal’s (10[5])Social (-5[1])Text article. (10[6]-5[1])A (10[1])theory in this subfield (-5[1])is opposed by Hugh Everett’s many-worlds (10[1])theory (10[2])and by the claim (10[1])that (10[2])“God does not play dice (10[1]-5[1])with the universe.” (10[2])For 10 points, (-5[1])name this subfield of physics (10[1])whose Copenhagen interpretation was critiqued by Erwin Schrödinger. (10[1])■END■ (10[5])

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