Barnum, Howard (1990) Dieks' Realistic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: A Comment. UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)

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D. Dieks has proposed a semantical rule which he claims yields a realistic interpretation of the formalism of quantum mechanics without the projection postulate. I argue that his proposal is unacceptable because it violates a natural requirement of psychophysical parallelism. His "semantical rule" is not an acceptable interpretive rule because it does not identify structures in the theory with structures in our experience, but postulates a merely probabilistic relationship between the two. Dieks' interpretation is contrasted with Everett's relative state interpretation, which attempts the same task but respects psychophysical parallelism.

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Item Type:	Other
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Barnum, Howard
Additional Information:	Unpublished 1990 preprint, has seen some limited circulation since then.
Keywords:	quantum mechanics modal interpretation Dieks probabilities psychophysical parallelism
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Depositing User:	Howard Barnum
Date Deposited:	09 Mar 2006
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2010 15:13
Item ID:	2649
Public Domain:	No
Commentary on:	D. Dieks, "Quantum Mechanics Without the Projection Postulate and its Realistic Interpretation", Foundations of Physics vol. 19, pp. 1397-1423 (1989)
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Date:	1990
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/2649

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