Deterministic versus indeterministic descriptions: not that different after all?
Werndl, Charlotte (2009) Deterministic versus indeterministic descriptions: not that different after all?.
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Abstract
The guiding question of this paper is: how similar are deterministic descriptions and indeterministic descriptions from a predictive viewpoint? The deterministic and indeterministic descriptions of concern in this paper are measure-theoretic deterministic systems and stochastic processes, respectively. I will explain intuitively some mathematical results which show that measure-theoretic deterministic systems and stochastic processes give more often the same predictions than one might perhaps have expected, and hence that from a predictive viewpoint these descriptions are quite similar.
| Keywords: | observational equivalence, determinism, indeterminism, ergodic theory, stochastic processes |
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| Subjects: | Specific Sciences: Complex Systems Specific Sciences: Physics General Issues: Determinism/Indeterminism |
| ID Code: | 4775 |
| Deposited By: | Werndl, Charlotte |
| Deposited On: | 27 July 2009 |
| Additional Information: | Contribution in: A. Hieke and H. Leitgeb (eds), Reduction, Abstraction, Analysis, Proceedings of the 31st International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium. Ontos, pp. 63-78. |