Covoni, Niccolò and Rovelli, Carlo (2025) Tractatus Quanticum. [Preprint]
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This text will perhaps only be understood by those who have themselves already thought the thoughts which are expressed in it, or similar thoughts. Its meaning could be summed up somewhat as follows: whatever can be said at all, can be said clearly by any speaker who is part of the world that is spoken about, and who speaks from its perspective.
\noindent Of course others far better than us have already been around here. But we feel some details have been left out, which quantum phenomena have brought into sharp light, and these bring further clarity. Whoever understands us recognizes again the following propositions as senseless. After climbing through these, over them so to speak, will kick away the ladder, once more. Thanks to this futility, we feel shamelessly entitled to parrot a Master.
Inspired not by his preaching but rather by his example (and not in small part by its later reflections), we have written all this, as we actually think that not to remain silent, even whereof one cannot speak, is not such a bad idea after all, maybe only, as we learned from him, to keep the warning alive that there are questions that have no meaning. What we hold onto is not knowledge of an absolute order, but the fleeting grasp of a perspective on perspectives. Hence this is at most just a manifesto for a picture of the world suggested by quantum mechanics. Each proposition attempts to show a possible way of formulating questions about nature in a manner coherent with what we have recently learned about it. A manner aware of its own partiality. Good philosophy, seems to us, dismantles idols, rather than creating them, and, like a gentle friend, reminds us with indirect hints, over and over again, that the answer to the riddle is that there is no riddle.
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| Keywords: | Relational Quantum Mechanics; Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus; Quantum Foundations; Philosophy of Physics | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics |
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| Depositing User: | Niccolò Covoni | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 25 Nov 2025 13:29 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 25 Nov 2025 13:29 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 27289 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics |
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| Date: | 24 November 2025 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/27289 |
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