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Converging Realities:
Toward a Common Philosophy of Physics and Mathematics
Roland Omnès

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

PREFACE vii

PART ONE - PRELIMINARIES

CHAPTER ONE: Beginnings 3
CHAPTER TWO: Brain and Reality 12
CHAPTER THREE: Mathematics and Classical Reality 22

PART TWO - REALITY AND THE QUANTUM WORLD

CHAPTER FOUR: First Encounter with the Quantum World 51
CHAPTER FIVE: Quantity and Reality 65
CHAPTER SIX: More about Physical Quantities 76
CHAPTER SEVEN: On the Extent of the "Lingua Mathematica" 86
CHAPTER EIGHT: Virtual Processes 95
CHAPTER NINE: Back to Classical Reality 105
CHAPTER TEN: Decoherence 114
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Did You Say "Paradox"? 126

PART THREE - THE CHARACTER OF PHYSICAL LAWS

CHAPTER TWLEVE: The Character of Fundamental Laws 141
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Character of Classical Reality 164

PART FOUR - PHYSISM

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Philosophy of Mathematics 179
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Physism: The Thesis 199
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Physism and the Philosophy of Mathematics 216
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Physism: A Discussion 231
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Ontology 243

BIBLIOGRAPHY 253
INDEX 261

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