In Defense of Operational Quantum Logic

Smets, Sonja (2002) In Defense of Operational Quantum Logic.

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Abstract

In the literature the work of C. Piron on OQL, ``the operational quantum logic of the Geneva School", has a
few times been criticised. Those criticisms were often due to misunderstandings, as has already been pointed out by
D.J. Foulis and C.H. Randall. In this paper we follow the line of defense in favour of OQL by replying to the criticisms formulated some time ago by W. Balzer and W.K. Essler & G. Zoubek. In order for the reader to follow our
argumentation, we briefly analyze the basic conceptual machinery of OQL.

Keywords:operational quantum logic, non-classical logic, philosophy of physics
Subjects:Specific Sciences: Physics: Quantum Mechanics
ID Code:541
Deposited By:Smets, Sonja
Deposited On:22 January 2002