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New Forms of Quantum Value Indefiniteness Suggest That Incompatible Views on Contexts Are Epistemic
Extensions of the Kochen–Specker theorem use quantum logics whose classical interpretation suggests a true-implies-value indefiniteness property. This can be interpreted as an indication that any view of a quantum state beyond a single context is epistemic. A remark by Gleason about the ad hoc const...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7512925/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33265496 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e20060406 |
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description | Extensions of the Kochen–Specker theorem use quantum logics whose classical interpretation suggests a true-implies-value indefiniteness property. This can be interpreted as an indication that any view of a quantum state beyond a single context is epistemic. A remark by Gleason about the ad hoc construction of probability measures in Hilbert spaces as a result of the Pythagorean property of vector components is interpreted platonically. Unless there is a total match between preparation and measurement contexts, information about the former from the latter is not ontic, but epistemic. This is corroborated by configurations of observables and contexts with a truth-implies-value indefiniteness property. |
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spelling | pubmed-75129252020-11-09 New Forms of Quantum Value Indefiniteness Suggest That Incompatible Views on Contexts Are Epistemic Svozil, Karl Entropy (Basel) Article Extensions of the Kochen–Specker theorem use quantum logics whose classical interpretation suggests a true-implies-value indefiniteness property. This can be interpreted as an indication that any view of a quantum state beyond a single context is epistemic. A remark by Gleason about the ad hoc construction of probability measures in Hilbert spaces as a result of the Pythagorean property of vector components is interpreted platonically. Unless there is a total match between preparation and measurement contexts, information about the former from the latter is not ontic, but epistemic. This is corroborated by configurations of observables and contexts with a truth-implies-value indefiniteness property. MDPI 2018-05-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7512925/ /pubmed/33265496 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e20060406 Text en © 2018 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Svozil, Karl New Forms of Quantum Value Indefiniteness Suggest That Incompatible Views on Contexts Are Epistemic |
title | New Forms of Quantum Value Indefiniteness Suggest That Incompatible Views on Contexts Are Epistemic |
title_full | New Forms of Quantum Value Indefiniteness Suggest That Incompatible Views on Contexts Are Epistemic |
title_fullStr | New Forms of Quantum Value Indefiniteness Suggest That Incompatible Views on Contexts Are Epistemic |
title_full_unstemmed | New Forms of Quantum Value Indefiniteness Suggest That Incompatible Views on Contexts Are Epistemic |
title_short | New Forms of Quantum Value Indefiniteness Suggest That Incompatible Views on Contexts Are Epistemic |
title_sort | new forms of quantum value indefiniteness suggest that incompatible views on contexts are epistemic |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7512925/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33265496 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e20060406 |
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