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Sometimes quantization is seen as the procedure that puts hats on classical observables to turn them into quantum observables.

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Dürr, D., Teufel, S. (2009). Introduction. In: Bohmian Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/b99978_1

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