Modalities and quantum mechanics

DOI10.1007/BF02213426MaRDI QIDQ1059630zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors F. J. Burghardt

Publication date 1984

Published in International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02213426

zbMATH Keywords

dialogic semanticsquantum modal logic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Modal logic (including the logic of norms) (03B45) Quantum logic (03G12) Logical foundations of quantum mechanics; quantum logic (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P10)

Review text

Three approaches concerning the use of modalities in the language of quantum mechanics were considered: Mittelstaedt and the author built up a dialogic semantics for modalities on a metalinguistic level, and a calculus of quantum modal logic is known that is complete and sound with respect to this dialogic semantics. Van Fraassen replaced the usual interpretation of quantum mechanics (with the projection postulate) by his 'modal interpretation' based on a modal object language. Dalla Chiara translated a nonmodal object language for quantum mechanics and the appropriate quantum logic into a modal language. Specifically the author is interested in the similarities and the difference of these three approaches.

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