Tag: Total recall in fiction

A depiction of a landscape inspired by the uncertainty principle, with shapes that appear to shift and blur.

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February 16, 2024

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Language, Philosophy of Mind

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Abstraction and language, Artifices (Borges 1944), Generalization (abstraction), Ireneo Funes (Borges character), Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), Language and uncertainty, Language limitations, Total recall in fiction, Uncertainty Principle, Werener Heisenberg on language, Werner Heisenberg, William Egginton}

What If We Lost the Power to Think Abstractly?

_{Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges depicts a character whose total recall prevents him from using abstractions, though he recognizes their existence} _{News

February 16, 2024

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Language, Philosophy of Mind}

Physicist Werner Heisenberg saw in the dilemma of language — the specific vs. the general — an analogy to his famous Uncertainty Principle in physics. Read More ›