Krause, Décio
(2024)
On Dieks against the Received View.
[Preprint]
Abstract
Dennis Dieks addressed some criticisms of the so-called Received View (RV) of non-individual quantum objects in a series of papers. His main con- cern is that the RV doesn’t fit the practice of physics since in some situations the physicist assumes that quantum objects can be treated individually, im- itating standard objects (individuals) in classical physics. In this paper, we revise his argumentation, showing that it involves some misunderstand- ings regarding the objectives of the RV.
Dieks also proposes an Alternative View (AV) which he thinks is more in accordance with the way physicists proceed. We argue that the AV is not conflating the RV, but is complementary to it, namely, substitutes it when quantum objects are sufficiently apart and can be treated as obeying classical logic. Thus, from the point of view of the practice of physics, in most cases, we can opt for the Alternative View, but the RV is more adequate when we are looking for logical and foundational analyses.
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