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Part two - Physics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 October 2009

Pieter E. Vermaas
Affiliation:
Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands
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In Part one the description of reality by modal interpretations has been developed as far as possible. In this part I determine whether modal interpretations are empirically adequate by considering their descriptions of measurements.

In Chapter 10 I focus on the measurement problem. After a measurement,according to our observations, the measurement device displays a definite outcome. Such an outcome is traditionally called a pointer reading and the question is whether modal interpretations manage to ascribe such pointer readings.

In the standard formulation of quantum mechanics one predicts by means the Born rule the probabilities and the correlations with which measurements have outcomes. In Chapter 11 I discuss whether modal interpretations can reproduce these empirically correct predictions.

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A Philosopher's Understanding of Quantum Mechanics
Possibilities and Impossibilities of a Modal Interpretation
, pp. 171 - 172
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2000

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  • Physics
  • Pieter E. Vermaas, Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands
  • Book: A Philosopher's Understanding of Quantum Mechanics
  • Online publication: 28 October 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511608230.012
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  • Pieter E. Vermaas, Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands
  • Book: A Philosopher's Understanding of Quantum Mechanics
  • Online publication: 28 October 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511608230.012
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  • Physics
  • Pieter E. Vermaas, Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands
  • Book: A Philosopher's Understanding of Quantum Mechanics
  • Online publication: 28 October 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511608230.012
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