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Rules and Meaning in Quantum Mechanics

Toader, Iulian D. (2023) Rules and Meaning in Quantum Mechanics. [Preprint]

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This book concerns the metasemantics of quantum mechanics (QM). Roughly, it pursues an investigation at an intersection of the philosophy of physics and the philosophy of semantics, and it offers a critical analysis of rival explanations of the semantic facts of standard QM. Two problems for such explanations are discussed: categoricity and permanence of rules. New results include 1) a reconstruction of Einstein's incompleteness argument, which concludes that a local, separable, and categorical QM cannot exist, 2) a reinterpretation of Bohr's principle of correspondence, grounded in the principle of permanence, 3) a meaning-variance argument for quantum logic, which follows a line of critical reflections initiated by Weyl, and 4) an argument for semantic indeterminacy leveled against inferentialism about QM, inspired by Carnap's work in the philosophy of classical logic.


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Toader, Iulian D.iulian.danut.toader@univie.ac.at0000-0001-9843-2618
Keywords: quantum mechanics, metasemantics, quantum logic, meaning variance, inferentialism, semantic indeterminacy, categoricity, permanence of rules
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Mathematics > History of Philosophy
Specific Sciences > Mathematics > Logic
General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science
Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Depositing User: Iulian Danut Toader
Date Deposited: 22 Oct 2023 18:36
Last Modified: 22 Oct 2023 18:36
Item ID: 22686
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Mathematics > History of Philosophy
Specific Sciences > Mathematics > Logic
General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science
Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Date: 21 October 2023
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/22686

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