Against Totalitarianism -- Introduction to Tractatus Quanticum

2026/07/05 by Jenann Ismael, Huw Price · 2 voices
#quant-ph #physics.hist-ph

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Abstract

Tractatus Quanticum (arXiv:2512.06034 [quant-ph]) is described by its authors as 'a re-editing, which takes quantum mechanics into account, of Wittgenstein's famous Tractatus.' The original Tractatus appeared with an introduction by Bertrand Russell. For Tractatus Quanticum, that role fell to us. This is the result.

Discussions

• Jenann Ismael and I wrote an Introduction for the Tractatus Quanticum by @covoni.bsky.social and @rovelli.bsky.social. #philsky #philsci #quantum [bsky, 17 points, 1 comments]
• This looks very interesting. The TQ is seemingly a presentation of QM from Rovelli's relational perspective, but it looks as though some of the principles adduced here would apply to other interpretat [bsky, 9 points, 2 comments]

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