Traces in probability space: William Demopoulos. On theories: logical empiricism and the methodology of modern physics, edited by Michael Friedman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, xxiv + 247 pp, $39.95 HB.

Autor: Heathcote, Adrian
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Zdroj: Metascience; Nov2022, Vol. 31 Issue 3, p351-356, 6p
Abstrakt: The crucial theorems for Demopoulos are those of Gleason and Kochen-Specker (KS) - the latter following from the former plus a (logical) compactness claim - and the relevant structure the projection lattice of subspaces of a Hilbert space. Demopoulos says of effects that they 'are induced by an interaction with an experimental set-up and registered in the experimental apparatus' (Demopoulos [3], 382). Thus, KS is not dependent on the choice of state and Bell's theorem follows from KS and so also from Gleason's theorem. Demopoulos then deploys this against Einstein's "criterion of reality" and on behalf of Bell's I analysis i of the prospects for a completion of QM along the lines Einstein envisaged. [Extracted from the article]
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