Argumentum: Journal of the Seminar of Discursive Logic, Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric (Jul 2021)

Les mathématiques seraient un langage comme les autres qui déterminerait les savoirs par leur ontologie cachée Etude 1 : l’indétermination d’Heisenberg

  • Pierre-Antoine Pontoizeau

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 2
pp. 104 – 130

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The mathematization of physics and science carries the risk of an absorption of realities to the point of confusing them with the symbols that serve their representation. This Pythagorean and Galilean project includes a hidden ontology, that of the derealization of the world in its representation. Physics is no more than a reflection of its representation, gradually manifesting its understanding of the hidden ontology of its language, not of the real. This first study on Heisenberg’s indeterminacy shows how the physicist reflects the dilemma of ordinals and cardinals. The disappearance of the real is a consequence of the primacy of mathematics: the logic of the imaginary.

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