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The Epistemic View Upon Science

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This chapter gives the background for the book. Its relation to other views on the foundation of quantum theory are clarified and discussed. The fundamental notion of an e-variable (epistemic conceptual variable) is explained, it is discussed and is related to the statistical parameter-concept. A quantum state is in some generality linked to a question-and-answer pair, and an experiment connected to such a question-and-answer pair is described for the case of a spin 1/2 particle. The two basic postulates of quantum theory are stated and discussed. The importance of inaccessible conceptual variables is stressed, and this is related to Bohr complementarity.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Inge S. Helland

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Helland, I.S. (2018). The Epistemic View Upon Science. In: Epistemic Processes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95068-6_1

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