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Quantum language and the migration of scientific concepts / Jennifer Burwell.

By: Burwell, Jennifer [author.].
Contributor(s): IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | MIT Press [publisher.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2018Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2018]Description: 1 PDF (338 pages).Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262345118; 0262345110.Subject(s): Quantum theory -- Philosophy | Physics -- Philosophy | Quantum theory in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Quantum Language and the Migration of Scientific Concepts : Quantum Physics, Nuclear Discourse, and the Cultural Migration of Scientific Concepts.DDC classification: 530.12014 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.
Contents:
Experience, perception, and the limits of language -- The physics of visuality, intuition, and aesthetics -- Quantum paradigms in literary criticism -- New and Post-New Age appropriations -- Quantum versus nuclear discourse.
Summary: How highly abstract quantum concepts were represented in language, and how these concepts were later taken up by philosophers, literary critics, and new-age gurus.
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Experience, perception, and the limits of language -- The physics of visuality, intuition, and aesthetics -- Quantum paradigms in literary criticism -- New and Post-New Age appropriations -- Quantum versus nuclear discourse.

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How highly abstract quantum concepts were represented in language, and how these concepts were later taken up by philosophers, literary critics, and new-age gurus.

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