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arxiv: 1409.0755 · v6 · pith:F2W2TX3Fnew · submitted 2014-09-02 · 🪐 quant-ph

The logic of the future in quantum theory

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keywords logicprobabilityquantumtruthfuturehistorymechanicsvalues
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According to quantum mechanics, statements about the future made by sentient beings like us are, in general, neither true nor false; they must satisfy a many-valued logic. I propose that the truth value of such a statement should be identified with the probability that the event it describes will occur. After reviewing the history of related ideas in logic, I argue that it gives an understanding of probability which is particularly satisfactory for use in quantum mechanics. I construct a lattice of future-tense propositions, with truth values in the interval $[0,1]$, and derive logical properties of these truth values given by the usual quantum-mechanical formula for the probability of a history.

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