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Quantum Logic and Quantum Reconstruction

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Quantum logic understood as a reconstruction program had real successes and genuine limitations. This paper offers a synopsis of both and suggests a way of seeing quantum logic in a larger, still thriving context.

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Notes

  1. Note that the term as used here is not the usual lattice-theoretic term.

  2. i.e., if \(\alpha \) is any non-zero element of \(\mathfrak {L}_A\) and \(\beta \) is any non-zero element of \(\mathfrak {L}_A\), then \(i_A(\alpha )\wedge i_B(\beta )\) is a non-zero element of \(\mathfrak {L}_A\otimes \mathfrak {L}_B\).

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Stairs, A. Quantum Logic and Quantum Reconstruction. Found Phys 45, 1351–1361 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-015-9879-4

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