Quantum metaphysical indeterminacy and worldly incompleteness

DOI10.1007/S11229-017-1581-YMaRDI QIDQ2690179zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alessandro Torza

Publication date 15 March 2023

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-017-1581-y

zbMATH Keywords

bivalencecompositionalityersatz worldersatzismimpossible worldsmetaphysical indeterminacynonclassical logicpossible worldsquantum mechanicsquantum physicssemantic completenesssuperpositionsupervaluationism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40)

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