Knowledge and Time

This is a unique volume by a unique scientist, which combines conceptual, formal, and engineering approaches in a way that is rarely seen. Its core is the relation between ways of learning and knowing on the one hand and different modes of time on the other. Partial Boolean logic and the associated...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Primas, Hans
Other Authors: Atmanspacher, Harald (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2017, 2017
Edition:1st ed. 2017
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Part I Knowledge: Introduction
  • Boolean Descriptions
  • Non-Boolean Descriptions
  • Rationality and Creativity
  • Modes of Knowing in Mathematics
  • Bottom-Up Approaches in Physics
  • Top-Down Approaches in Physics
  • Part II Time: Matter, Mind and Time
  • Temporal Groups and Algebras
  • Representations of Temporal Groups and Semigroups
  • Complementary Concepts of Time
  • The Relevance of Sequential Time
  • The Relevance of Non-Sequential Time
  • Appendix A: C*- and W*-Algebras