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Thanks a lot for your letter. Your objections to my book don’t annoy me so please continue with them and keep on sending the clippings. Smith appreciates them, as do Tiomno and the others here.
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University people get much more respect than in U.S.
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It infuriates me that even leftists like Furry show an absurd deference to von Neumann in the [text missing – CT].
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The abstract mathematician “puts everything over” in his first step, when he makes his assumptions.
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If we do this, we must be prepared for vicious + unprincipled opposition from the Communists, but it is important that our defence be kept on an objective and cool level - i.e., we must not be carried away into the very easy dodge of condemning Russia from a superior moral vantage-point.
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E.g. the Pope’s fondness for theories of a mysteriously changing universe.
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In the causal interpretation operators can be dispensed with entirely.
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Talbot, C. (2017). Letters to Miriam Yevick, 1952, Part 2. In: Talbot, C. (eds) David Bohm: Causality and Chance, Letters to Three Women. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55492-1_22
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