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On the Meaning of EPR’s Reality Criterion

Gomori, Marton and Hofer-Szabó, Gábor (2021) On the Meaning of EPR’s Reality Criterion. [Preprint]

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Abstract

This essay has two main claims about EPR's Reality Criterion. First, we claim that the application of the Reality Criterion makes an essential difference between the EPR argument and Einstein’s later arguments against quantum mechanics. We show that while the EPR argument, making use of the Reality Criterion, does derive that certain interpretations of quantum mechanics are incomplete, Einstein’s later arguments, making no use of the Reality Criterion, do not prove incompleteness, but rather point to the inadequacy of the Copenhagen interpretation. We take this fact as an indication that the Reality Criterion is a crucial, indispensable component of the incompleteness argument(s). The second claim is more substantive. We argue that the Reality Criterion is a special case of the Common Cause Principle. Finally, we relate this proposal to Tim Maudlin's recent assertion that the Reality Criterion is an analytic truth.


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Item Type: Preprint
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Gomori, Martongomorim@gmail.com
Hofer-Szabó, Gáborgsz@szig.hu
Additional Information: Forthcoming in Synthese
Keywords: reality criterion, EPR argument, Common Cause Principle, interpretations of quantum mechanics, incompleteness
Subjects: General Issues > Causation
Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Depositing User: Mr. Marton Gomori
Date Deposited: 21 Aug 2021 13:22
Last Modified: 21 Aug 2021 13:22
Item ID: 19478
Subjects: General Issues > Causation
Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Date: 2021
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/19478

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