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The present talk will be mainly devoted to the topic of language and more precisely the question: is there a sound and universal language for describing physical events? By “universal”, I mean a language expressing macroscopic phenomena as well as microscopic (atomic) events; by “sound”, I mean it obeys standard logic.
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Omnés, R. (2004). The Language of Interpretation in Quantum Physics and Its Logic. In: Weingartner, P. (eds) Alternative Logics. Do Sciences Need Them?. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05679-0_16
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