[WikiEN-l] fictional categories

[Ian Woollard]

On 04/11/2009, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Schroedinger's cat very definitely is fictitious; it's not an
>> experiment you can actually do and get an alive/dead cat that you can
>> actually see, you would get either an alive cat, or a dead cat.
>
> I agree with the statement that it should not be in that category.
> Essentially, because schrodinger's cat is not a cat.

Schrodinger's cat is a fictitious cat that is in the Schrodinger's cat
thought experiment.

It is fictitious because it is not a factual cat; it is countrafactual.

> There is no notable fiction in which
> Schrodinger's cat features heavily, for example.

It is notably in "Schroedinger's cat" thought experiment.

That's what a thought experiment is; it's a made up story about what
would happen if you did X,Y,Z which is used to illuminate aspects of
physics.

> Steve

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-Ian Woollard