Abstract
I have grouped the main problems in interpreting QM in the previous chapter. In the present chapter, we shall deal again with these four groups of problems (formalism, measurement, non-locality and causality) but by introducing the reader to the main solutions that have given to them and critically evaluating them. In fact, only a careful examination of what has been said on the subject could help us to find an original way to see the problems. It helps us to restrict the range of the viable pieces of interpretation by excluding those hypotheses that, for one reason or the other, cannot work and thus to attribute the right values to those hypotheses that resist critical analysis. I stress that no interpretation or hypothesis can be dismissed in few words for at least two good reasons: (i) QM looks like a complex array of puzzles, what requires extreme care in making any assertion, and (ii) all of these interpretations have been provided by excellent scholars who have tried to deeply penetrate that riddle.
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For a quick summary see Auletta (2004b).
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London and Bauer (1939) .
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For this example see Auletta et al. (2009, Sect. 9.1).
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See Lüders (1951) .
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Apart from the Wigner’s theorem (Sect. 1.2.5), I recall here the quasi-probability Wigner function (of both position and momentum), important especially in quantum optics. I also recall his crucial contributions to group theory and its applications to QM.
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For a similar statement see Eddington (1939, p. 50) .
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For perception this was shown already by the Gestalt school. For a short summary see Auletta (2011a, Sect. 4.4.4).
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Zeilinger (2005) .
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Berkeley (1710) .
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It is not by chance that the idealist philosopher G. W. F. Hegel vindicated the supremacy of the ‘dialectical method’, that is, of the procedures over the facts.
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See Geroch (1978, p. 35) .
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The epoché is a notion introduced in philosophy by the father of phenomenology (Edmund Husserl 1859–1938; Husserl 1931) .
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Wigner (1960).
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Munowitz (2005, p. 43).
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As also remarked in Heisenberg (1952, p. 22, 30) .
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Renninger (1960). In his reply, annexed to Renninger’s paper, Heisenberg essentially reiterates his instrumentalist standpoint.
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See Auletta (2000, Sect. 14.2.1).
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Peres and Zurek (1982).
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Everett (1957) .
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Schrödinger (1935a) .
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Deutsch (2011, Chap. 12) .
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For the relevance of the context see also Epperson and Zafiris (2013, p. 92) .
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Zurek (2010, p. 410).
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As affirmed in Wallace (2012, Sect. 1.9) .
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A certain reject of the measurement problem by the scientific community is well expressed by the title “Against‘Measurement”’ of reference (Bell 1990).
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As in Wallace (2012, Chap. 4) .
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On this stuff see also Norsen (2017, Sect. 10.2) .
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Lewis (1986) .
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Leibniz an Arnauld, 14th July 1686, in Leibniz (2019, II, pp. 53–54) : “Si dans la vie de quelque personne et même dans tout cet univers quelque chose alloit autrement qu’elle ne va, rien nous empêcheroit de dire que se seroit une autre personne ou un autre universe possible”.
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Deutsch (1997, p. 93) .
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As pointed out in Auletta (2009). Once, addressing the audience of a symposium, D. Deutsch has said: “I’ll start with a simple fact: in this room, in some nearby universes, Hugh Everett is here with us, celebrating. Perhaps he’s there, in that seat where Simon is. And therefore, in those universes, Simon is somewhere else” (Deutsch 2010, p. 542) .
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Deutsch (1997, p. 126) .
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Wallace (2010, p. 54) .
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The problem was first raised in Barrow and Tipler (1986). For a different point of view on the subject see Rees (1999). See also Tegmark et al. (2006). The existence of natural constants does not seem to be in contrast with the relational standpoint that I support. With the words of Robert Laughlin, “all the fundamental constants require an environmental context to make sense” (Laughlin 2005, p. 19).
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Tegmark (2003) .
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Quoted in Mehra and Rechenberg (1982, VI, p. 754).
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Halliwell (2010).
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Zurek (2010).
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Bell (1990).
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For a deeper understanding of this issue I recommend (Zwolak and Zurek 2013). I shall come back on these problems.
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Wallace (2010) .
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See Paz et al. (1993, 489–94) .
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For the use of the notion of global see also Schlosshauer (2007, Sect. 2.3) .
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At one moment Bohr says that “our interpretation of the experimental material rests essentially upon the classical concepts” (Bohr 1928) .
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Peirce (1891).
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In general, Einstein was quite sympathetic with the views of Schrödinger (Home and Whitaker 2007, pp. 33–34, 86), at least until 1935.
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Tegmark et al. (2006) .
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Serjeant (2010, Chap. 6) .
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Shannon (1948).
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For this thermodynamical quantities the reader may consult a textbook like (Huang 1963) .
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Wehrl (1978). This is an extensive paper on the subject.
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Lieb (1975).
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For some additional considerations see Auletta (2011a, Chap. 2).
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For a measure of entanglement see Vedral et al. (1997).
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See Barnett and Phoenix (1991) for details on these proofs.
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Although there is often a difference between Boltzmann and Shannon entropy related to the degrees of freedom (which in general are higher in the former case), when we deal with elementary particles they converge (Bekenstein 2003).
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As recalled in Auletta (2011c, Sect. 3.2.1).
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Quoted in Shimony (1965, p. 317). Shimony defines Schrödinger as a realist.
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Wheeler (1990) .
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They are formulated in Bell (1990).
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A personal communication reported in Auletta (2011a, p. 38).
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Planck (1922) .
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Auletta (2011a, Sect. 2.1).
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Timpson (2013, Sects. 2.2.5, 4.4).
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See also Deutsch (1997, p. 97) .
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A good and basic textbook is Ling and Xing (2004) .
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D’Ariano et al. (2017, Sect. 12.3) .
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On this distinction see Auletta (2011c, Sect. 3.2.5).
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Zurek (2013).
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This is extensively discussed in Auletta (2011a, Chaps. 7–11). See literature quoted there.
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The reader may have a look at Auletta (2011a, Sect. 2.2).
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As pointed out in Auletta (2006b).
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Bennett (1973).
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Shannon (1948).
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Schrödinger (1992) .
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Brillouin (1962).
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Lieb (1975).
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On this point see Cohen-Tannoudji (1991, pp. 52–53, 68–69) .
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On this see Battail (2014, p. 56) .
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Laplace (1796, pp. 541–44) .
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This is likely due especially to Podolsky (Home and Whitaker 2007, p. 109), although I think that Einstein considerably contributed.
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On these problems see Jammer (1974, Chap. 6). See also Harrigan and Spekkens (2010), although I disagree with the authors (and with A. Fine, who first introduced this idea in Fine (1981)) that the EPR paper does not correspond to Einstein’s view (the fact that Podolsky may have been the material extensor of the article tells us nothing about the issue at the stake), and consider their judgement about the presumed “opaque” logical structure of the argument a true misunderstanding of what the paper says. The argument is clearly complex but not obscure: it could have been reduced to implication (3.99) and an experimental evidence, but to assume the hypothetical validity of the uncertainty relations was mandatory.
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As pointed out in Howard (1992) .
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Einstein et al. (1935) .
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See also Margenau (1950, pp. 299–300) .
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Bohr (1928) .
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Bohr (1935a) .
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This way of thinking pertains the family of forms of non-monotonic reasoning that are typical for empirical problems especially when induction is involved: see Pearl (1988, p. 59) .
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Quoted in Home and Whitaker (2007, p. 64).
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See, e.g. Deutsch (2011, Chap. 12) .
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Already in 1918 Einstein tells us that “no logical path leads from perceptions to the principles of the theory” (Einstein 1918, p. 109). See also Einstein (1930, p. 114). This conviction accompanies the great physicist through his whole life since still in 1952 he tells us that “there is, of course, no logical way to the establishment of a theory”, quoted in Rindler (2001, p. 33). From this correct premise, Einstein infers that “all concepts, even those that are closest to experience, are from the point of view of logic freely chosen conventions” (“Alle Begriffe, auch die erlebnis–nächsten, sind vom logischen Gesichtspunkte aus freie Setzungen”) (Einstein 1949a, pp. 12 and 13) .
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It is not by chance that in Bohr (1949, p. 230) Bohr speaks of “the necessity of considering the whole experimental arrangement”.
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Bohr (1935b) .
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Although doubts can be cast on whether Bohr had ever consequently supported an interactionist point of view (Stachel 2017) .
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Schrödinger (1936) .
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Mehra and Rechenberg (1982, VI, p. 744).
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As proposed in Auletta (2007).
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For historical survey see Jammer (1974, Chap. 7). According to Jammer, hidden variables are one of the most recent attempts at explaining visible things with invisible ones. Einstein himself may have initially contributed (Home and Whitaker 2007, p. 89), although is engagement appears modest and he was never particularly supportive of this research project (Jammer 1974, pp. 254–55) .
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Auletta (2000, p. 543).
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Auletta (2000, p. 544).
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Bohm (1952) .
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See Auletta (2000, Sects. 28.2–28.3).
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See Jammer (1974, Sect. 7.5) .
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On this subject see Auletta et al. (2009, Sect. 10.5.3).
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This seems related to the fact, pointed out by the German physicist Walther Bothe (1891–1957), that, even when wave functions of the two EPR particles are factorised (that is, are in a product state of the kind (1.388)), the HVs of the two systems can be still mutually dependent (Home and Whitaker 2007, p. 89).
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On this see Auletta (2000, p. 561).
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Englert et al. (1994).
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One has spoken of exorcised Bohmian theory (Conway and Kochen 2006, p. 1454) .
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Hiley (1999).
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Von Neumann (1932, pp. 163–71) .
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Bell (1966).
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Bell (1966).
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De Morgan (1847) .
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See also Bub (1989) .
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Whitehead (1925).
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Bell (1964).
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Auletta (2000, pp. 549–50).
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Conway and Kochen (2006) .
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The reference paper is Braunstein et al. (1992).
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Aspect et al. (1982) .
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Santos (1991) .
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Braunstein et al. (1992).
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Shimony (1983) .
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This is why to say that entanglement is an exclusive and discriminating connection among particles, as unfortunately is written in Maudlin (1994, p. 23), is a mistake.
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Cerf and Adami (1997) .
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Wiesner (1983).
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Bennett and Brassard (1984) .
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Battail (2014, p. 15) .
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See Abramsky and Coecke (2009) .
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As pointed out in Timpson (2013, Sects. 3.7 and 4.1).
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Auletta (2011b).
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Pawłowski and Scarani (2016) .
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Tsirelson (1980).
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Masanes et al. (2006) .
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Another way to consider the problem is that hyper-correlations would violate the uncertainty relations (Oppenheim and Wehner 2010) .
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‘T Hooft (2016, p. 32) .
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Pawłowski and Scarani (2016) .
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As pointed out in Auletta (2011b).
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Wiesner (1983).
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See the summary in Nielsen and Chuang (2000, Sect. 12.5.1).
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As pointed out in Auletta (2011a, Chap. 2).
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The connection between network of entangled systems and non-locality has been explored in Cavalcanti et al. (2011).
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As shown in Krenn and Zeilinger (1996) .
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As proposed in Aravind (1997).
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The reference paper is Auletta et al. (2008).
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Aristotle Phys. (1950, I, 7–9) .
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I think that the notion of Quasi-gegenstand (almost object) introduced by Carnap aims at both types and type–tokens, since it concerns general objects but also some individual ones (Carnap 1928, Sect. 27). Armstrong has supported a theory of universals (Armstrong 1978). In Armstrong (1983, pp. 100–101) he introduces the notion of quasi-universal that perhaps expresses the same concept of type–token here. See also Margenau (1950, Sect. 15.4) .
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‘T Hooft (2016, pp. 8–9). Superposition states are called templates, which corresponds somehow to the notion of type.
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‘T Hooft (2016, p. 44) .
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The author seems aware of this problem (‘T Hooft 2016, pp. 51–54) .
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Collins (2010) .
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Auletta et al. (2008).
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Born (1949, p. 44) .
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It could be said that this insight was originally due to the Italian physicist Franco Selleri (1936–2013) when he affirmed that quantum waves can have physical effects although deprived of momentum and energy, i.e. of dynamical characters, what hints implicitly to a kind of causal constraint (Selleri 1969). Unfortunately, in the following Selleri was not always consequent with this position and searched for an empty wave as a kind of localised object (Sect. 3.3.4), loosing in this way the notion of causal constraint that was implicit in his former point of view.
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In fact, there is currently a flourishing of Aristotelian and neo-Aristotelian studies in philosophy.
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As remarked in Peirce (1902). Unfortunately, here and elsewhere Peirce speaks of final causes and not of formal ones.
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On this see D’Ariano et al. (2017, Sect. 5.1) .
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Born (1949, Chap. 2) .
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Born (1949, Chaps. 3–4, 9) .
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Laplace (1825) .
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Aristotle (1950, 201a 10–19) .
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See Auletta (2011a, Sects. 8.2.1–8.2.4).
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Shimony (1993): see the index of the volumes.
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Zurek (2013).
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As reported in Heisenberg (1969, Chap. 5) .
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Bridgman (1927, p. 5).
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Bridgman (1927, p. 25, 28).
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Bridgman (1927, p. 12).
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Bridgman (1927, pp. 22–23).
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Heisenberg (1927) .
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Bridgman (1949).
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Einstein (1949b, p. 679) .
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Heisenberg (1927) .
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See also Auletta and Tarozzi (2004, pp. 1680–81) .
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It seems that W. Pauli somehow supported a view in this sense (Home and Whitaker 2007, p. 63).
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Heisenberg (1958, pp. 54–55; see also pp. 137–38) .
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See also Van Fraassen (1991).
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Heisenberg (1958, p. 142) .
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As pointed out in Born (1949, Chaps. 6–7) .
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Deutsch (2011, Chap. 12) .
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As reported in Renninger (1960).
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Auletta, G. (2019). The Main Interpretations. In: The Quantum Mechanics Conundrum. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16649-6_3
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