Did bohr succeed in defending the completeness of quantum mechanics?

Autor: Kunihisa Morita
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />French<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, Vol 24, Iss 1, Pp 51-63 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1414-4247
1808-1711
DOI: 10.5007/1808-1711.2020v24n1p51
Popis: This study posits that Bohr failed to defend the completeness of the quantum mechanical description of physical reality against Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen’s (EPR) paper. Although there are many papers in the literature that focus on Bohr’s argument in his reply to the EPR paper, the purpose of the current paper is not to clarify Bohr’s argument. Instead, I contend that regardless of which interpretation of Bohr’s argument is correct, his defense of the quantum mechanical description of physical reality remained incomplete. For example, a recent trend in studies of Bohr’s work is to suggest he considered the wave-function description to be epistemic. However, such an interpretation cannot be used to defend the completeness of the quantum mechanical description.
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