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Recent Advances in the Consistency of Interpretation

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Part of the book series: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook [1999] ((VCIY,volume 7))

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Physics, being both an empirical and a theoretical science can only be fully expressed by means of two distinct languages, or two different kinds of propositions.

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Omnès, R. (1999). Recent Advances in the Consistency of Interpretation. In: Greenberger, D., Reiter, W.L., Zeilinger, A. (eds) Epistemological and Experimental Perspectives on Quantum Physics. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook [1999], vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1454-9_7

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