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“The world is made up of real stuff, existing in space and changing only through local interactions — this local-realism hypothesis is about the most intuitive scientific postulate imaginable. but quantum mechanics implies that it is false, as has been known for more than 50 years1. however, brilliantly successful though quantum mechanics has been, it is still only a theory, and no definitive experiment has disproved the local-realism hypothesis — until now. on page 682 of this issue [doi: 10.1038/nature15759], hensen et al.2 report the first violation of a constraint called a bell inequality, under conditions that prevent alternative explanations of the experimental data. their findings therefore rigorously reject local realism, for the first time… a bell inequality is a mathematical relationship regarding the statistics of measurement outcomes obtained by two or more parties. under certain physical conditions relating to the timing of events, a violation of a bell inequality proves that local realism — a hypothesis satisfied in all of science except quantum mechanics — is false.”

“In this paper schelling’s reception of fichte’s wissenschaftslehre is discussed within the context of his early writings. schelling never was a disciple of fichte in the strict sense of the word. he reinterpreted fichte’s doctrine of the absolute i within the metaphysical framework of his studies of plato and kant. schelling developed his concept of the absolute as i in opposition to spinoza’s doctrine of absolute substance, and never considered the i to be absolute in fichte’s sense. the philosophical differences between schelling and fichte were obvious from the beginning as is shown by their different interpretations of intellectual intuition.”