Concept combination with quantum probability theory
Quantum probability and conceptual combination in conjunctions
... conceptual combination, Osherson and Smith (1981) pointed out that guppies could be considered better pet fish than they were either pets or ...the probability must always be reduced each time (see Figure ...
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Lüders conditionalization: Conditional probability, transition probability, and updating in quantum probability theory
... and quantum states serve only as representational de- vices to bookkeep the credences of QBian ...The quantum state changes, perforce, in accordance with the L/vN postulate; but this change does not require ...
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The structure of classical extensions of quantum probability theory
... of quantum mechanics are essentially those of our definition of a reduction map ...bounded quantum ob- servables with bounded measurable functions on phase space, then Theorem 10 asserts that, after ...
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Towards a quantum probability theory of similarity judgments
... 4 Conclusions So what are we to conclude about the current status of the QP approach to sim- ilarity judgments? In this contribution we have been particularly harsh on the approach, and we haven’t shirked from pointing ...
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Quantum probability theory as a common framework for reasoning and similarity
... proposed that when assessing the rel- ative probability of statements about a hypothetical person, Linda, participants employ a process of similarity. Thus, the idea that similar or identical cognitive processes ...
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A quantum probability explanation for violations of "rational" decision theory
... classic probability theory is too restrictive to fully describe human ...on quantum probability, which can subsume classic probability, as a special ...cognitive quantum ...
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Betting on the Outcomes of Measurements: A Bayesian Theory of Quantum Probability
... the quantum domain. After all, the theory of probability, even in its most subjective form, associates a person’s degree of be- lief with the objective possibilities in the physical ...the ...
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APPROACH TO THE BRAIN-MIND INTERACTION USING QUANTUM TRANSITION PROBABILITY CONCEPT
... Many new approaches in the explanation of brain functions are possible using knowledge from both, computer sciences and modern physics. How the material world (brain) is related to the immaterial product (mind) is the ...
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Levy processes - from probability theory to finance and quantum groups
... general concept, and much of both the- ory and applications focusses on the properties of specific classes of process that possess additional ...of probability in the 1930s and 1940s and much of this was ...
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Cold and hot cognition: quantum probability theory and realistic psychological modeling
... Classical probability (CP) theory has struggled to provide a comprehensive, sometimes even adequate, description and explanation of human decision ...
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Locality, probability and quantum mechanics
... "special" characteristics of regular statistical theories (e.g., the order-determining property equation (2.3), and the "decomposition" properties noted in Theorems 4.2, 4.3 (§4.4)). Finally, going in the opposite ...
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Probability in Everettian quantum mechanics
... which both outcomes of the measurement actually occur. The trick, then, is to reconcile the actual occurrence of every possible result of a given measurement with our experience of exactly one of the possible results. ...
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A Tutorial on Probability Theory
... joint probability decomposes into the product of their marginal ...the concept of independence to random variables that take values associated with the occurrence of an ...
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BASIC PROBABILITY THEORY. theory of probability: Probability is composed partly of our ignorance, partly of our knowledge.
... BASIC PROBABILITY THEORY 1.1 INTRODUCTION Probability theory is the mathematics of ...complexity theory, and quantum physics, and still there would most likely be no completely ...
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A Quantum Probability Perspective on Borderline Vagueness
... Williamson, 1994). Epistemic theories assume the existence of an exact definition in each case, but one which is unknown to us. On this account, the indeterminacy connected with a vague expression stems from our ...
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Quantum Phenomena and the Theory of Quantum Mechanics
... a quantum object took to get to the detector, but we can predict the probability that it will arrive at a ...a quantum object will decay, but we can model the probability of ...the ...
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Chance and Uncertainty: Probability Theory
... “Game” Odds A common marketing technique is to offer consumers participation in a “collection game.” McDonald’s, for example, runs an annual “Monopoly” game in conjunction with Hasbro (the publisher of the board game). ...
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Bettingon the outcomes of measurements: a Bayesian theory of quantum probability
... understanding of what it means for two experiments to be incompatible, and yet for their possible outcomes to be related; to show how these relations imply the uncertainty principle; and[r] ...
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Concept of Probability and Probability Distribution
... made very large, the relative frequency tends towards a fixed value. This can then be fixed value. This can then be said said to be the probability of occurrence to be the probability of occurrence of that ...
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Probability in quantum mechanics
... starting from an alternative fluid version for the one dimensional Schrodinger equation, a connection with the stochastic point of view will be shown in this paper.. But the process invo[r] ...
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