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Quantum Theoretical Concepts of Measurement: Part II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

James L. Park
James L. Park*
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Washington State University
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Abstract

This portion of the essay concludes a two-part paper, Part I of which appeared in an earlier issue of this Journal. Part II begins with a careful study of the quantum description of real experiments in order to motivate a proposal that two distinct quantum theoretical measurement constructs should be recognized, both of which must be distinguished from the concept of preparation. The different epistemological roles of these concepts are compared and explained. It is then concluded that the only possible type of “quantum measurement theory” is one of little metaphysical interest and that quantum measurement seems problematical only when viewed from an overly narrow classical perspective.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 35 , Issue 4 , December 1968 , pp. 389 - 411
Copyright
Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1968

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Footnotes

Part 1 of this article appears in the immediately preceding issue of Philosophy of Science, Vol. 35, No. 3 (September, 1968).

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