Singh, Mihir
(2023)
Classical Concepts and the Bohrian
Epistemological Thesis.
[Preprint]
Abstract
In this paper we establish an Epistemological Thesis based on Bohrian thought constituted of three different claims: the continuity claim, the classicality claim, and the limiting claim. The thesis is founded on a notion of physicality as spatio-temporality which is used to show the necessity of application of classical concepts in physical descriptions within physical theories. Further, various views on the metaphysics of the wavefunction are analysed in view of the notion of physicality as mentioned above, along with the implied necessity of the classical conceptual framework. These approaches to the metaphysics of the wavefunction necessitated by non-locality is seen as the basis of limit of classical physical description, therefore, of description of quantum phenomena. In view of the established thesis, two more complete alternatives to Bohrian thought, Bohmian Mechanics and GRW theory are analysed and the persistence of elements of Bohrian thought along with a vindication of the doctrine of classical concepts within both of these alternative theories is shown.
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