Fundamental physical ontologies and the constraint of empirical coherence: a defense of wave function realism

DOI10.1007/s11229-014-0633-9zbMath1359.81027OpenAlexW2075820007MaRDI QIDQ513953

Alyssa Ney

Publication date: 8 March 2017

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-014-0633-9

zbMATH Keywords

decoherencequantum mechanicsconfirmationwave functionlocal beableswave function realism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Physics (00A79)

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