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- Title
New Forms of Quantum Value Indefiniteness Suggest That Incompatible Views on Contexts Are Epistemic.
- Authors
Svozil, Karl
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
EPISTEMICS; KOCHEN-Specker theorem; QUANTUM logic; QUANTUM states; HILBERT space
- Publication
Entropy, 2018, Vol 20, Issue 6, p406
- ISSN
1099-4300
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/e20060406