Wittgenstein’s Picture Theory in the Quantum Mechanical Worldview

• 作者: Shiro Ishikawa
• 来源期刊: 量子信息科学期刊(英文)
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: Wittgenstein’s Picture Theory Quantum Language Linguistic Copenhagen Interpretation
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（4）
• 页码范围: 104-125
• 页数: 22页
• 分类号: H31

摘要

Recently we proposed the linguistic Copenhagen interpretation (or, quantum language), which has a great power to describe both classical and quantum systems. Thus we think that quantum language can be viewed as the language of science. Therefore, it makes sense to study, from the quantum linguistic point of view, Wittgenstein’s picture theory, since he must have wanted to create a language of science. In this paper, we show that the proposition that Wittgenstein studied in his book “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” can be regarded as a binary projective measurement in classical quantum language. And thus, we conclude that Wittgenstein’s language (<em>i.e.</em>, the language that he supposed in his book) is realized by classical quantum language. Hence, now we can fully understand Wittgenstein’s picture theory since the reason his book is incomprehensible is that he did not define his language.