Round 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. David Deutsch modified a thought experiment from a paper in this field called “Remarks on the Mind-Body Question,” in which one asks a (*) friend to perform an experiment and report the result. The “Transformative Hermeneutics” (10[1])of an extension of this field title Alan Sokal’s (10[2])Social Text article. A (10[1])theory in this subfield is opposed by Hugh Everett’s many-worlds theory and by the claim that “God does not play dice with the universe.” For 10 points, name this subfield of physics whose Copenhagen interpretation was critiqued by Erwin Schrödinger. ■END■ (10[1])

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