Definition of "nonclassical" []

• Not classical. (adjective)
• Not governed by the rules of Newtonian mechanics. (adjective)
• Not governed or describable by the classical theory of electromagnetism. (adjective)

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• "One could hardly be surprised to encounter random collectivities, whether governed by usual statistical laws (which are quite different from the regularities we encounter in nonclassical cases) or not."
• "This decoherence, however, signals the irreducible inaccessibility of the efficacious processes that give rise to the body or the text through certain nonclassical configurations of material or phenomenal effects."
• "They give the materiality of the signifiers a formal structure we encounter in nonclassical theory."