Del Santo, Flavio and Gisin, Nicolas (2023) Potentiality realism: A realistic and indeterministic physics based on propensities. [Preprint]
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We propose an interpretation of physics named potentiality realism. This view, which can be applied to classical as well as to quantum physics, regards potentialities (i.e. intrinsic, objective propensities for individual events to obtain) as elements of reality, thereby complementing the actual properties taken by physical variables. This allows one to naturally reconcile realism and fundamental indeterminism in any theoretical framework. We discuss our specific interpretation of propensities, that require them to depart from being probabilities at the formal level, though allowing for statistics and the law of large numbers. This view helps reconcile classical and quantum physics by showing that most of the conceptual problems that are customarily taken to be unique issues of the latter - such as the measurement problem - are actually in common to all indeterministic physical theories.
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| Additional Information: | Accepted for publication in the European Journal for Philosophy of Science | |||||||||
| Keywords: | Indeterminism, propensity, interpretations, foundations of physics | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Flavio Del Santo | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 15 Nov 2023 01:52 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 15 Nov 2023 01:52 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 22768 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism |
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| Date: | May 2023 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/22768 |
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