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The quantum computational semantics can be naturally applied to fields (far apart from microphysics) where ambiguity, vagueness, holism, and contextuality play an essential role. On this basis one can develop a general theory of vague possible worlds, which allows us to understand some abstract reasons why a “metaphorical thinking” is often successfully used in the languages of art and sometimes even in the field of exact sciences. A significant case is represented by musical languages, whose semantics can be formally analyzed by using some basic concepts of the quantum-theoretic formalism. In this framework, both musical thoughts and extra-musical meanings (evoked by musical compositions) can be represented as special examples of quantum superpositions: ambiguous ideas that essentially allude to a “cloud” of alternative possibilities.
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See [12].
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See Aristotle, Meteorologica, 357.
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For an interesting discussion of this problem see [11].
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See [9].
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If the little flowers knew / How deeply wounded is my heart, / They would weep with me, / to soothe my pain.
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They would come down from their height, /and speak words of comfort to me.
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Dalla Chiara, M.L., Giuntini, R., Leporini, R., Sergioli, G. (2018). Ambiguity in Natural and Artistic Languages: A Quantum Semantic Analysis. In: Quantum Computation and Logic. Trends in Logic, vol 48. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04471-8_8
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