The generalised liar paradox: A quantum model and interpretation

DOI10.1007/S10699-004-6248-8MaRDI QIDQ866998zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jan Broekaert, Diederik Aerts, Bart D'Hooghe

Publication date 14 February 2007

Published in Foundations of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0404066

zbMATH Keywords

abstracted quantum mechanicsgeneralized Liar Paradox

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05)

Abstract: The formalism of abstracted quantum mechanics is applied in a model of the generalized Liar Paradox. Here, the Liar Paradox, a consistently testable configuration of logical truth properties, is considered a dynamic conceptual entity in the cognitive sphere. Basically, the intrinsic contextuality of the truth-value of the Liar Paradox is appropriately covered by the abstracted quantum mechanical approach. The formal details of the model are explicited here for the generalized case. We prove the possibility of constructing a quantum model of the m-sentence generalizations of the Liar Paradox. This includes (i) the truth-falsehood state of the m-Liar Paradox can be represented by an embedded 2m-dimensional quantum vector in a (2m)^m dimensional complex Hilbert space, with cognitive interactions corresponding to projections, (ii) the construction of a continuous 'time' dynamics is possible: typical truth and falsehood value oscillations are described by Schrodinger evolution, (iii) Kirchoff and von Neumann axioms are satisfied by introduction of 'truth-value by inference' projectors, (iv) time invariance of unmeasured state.

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