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Logic and Probability in Quantum Mechanics

✍ Scribed by G. Kreisel (auth.), Patrick Suppes (eds.)


Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1976
Tongue
English
Leaves
547
Series
Synthese Library 78
Category
Library

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✦ Table of Contents


Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Notion of Mechanistic Theory....Pages 3-18
Essai sur la Logique de L’indeterminisme et la Ramification de L’espace-Temps....Pages 19-46
How to Think Quantum-Logically....Pages 47-53
The Conditional in Quantum Logic....Pages 55-72
Empirical Logic and Quantum Mechanics....Pages 73-103
Some Results from the Combinatorial Approach to Quantum Logic....Pages 105-119
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
The Quantum Probability Calculus....Pages 123-146
The Probability Structure of Quantum-Mechanical Systems....Pages 147-177
Towards a Revised Probabilistic Basis for Quantum Mechanics....Pages 179-193
Probability in a Discrete Model of Particles and Observations....Pages 195-219
Superposition and Macroscopic Observation....Pages 221-234
A Note on the So-Called Yes-No Experiments and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics....Pages 235-245
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
On the Completeness of Quantum Theory....Pages 249-281
The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox....Pages 283-301
Stochastic Incompleteness of Quantum Mechanics....Pages 303-322
Errors in the No Hidden Variable Proof of Kochen and Specker....Pages 323-364
Operator-Observable Correspondence....Pages 365-395
Randomness and Locality in Quantum Mechanics....Pages 397-420
Fundamental Statistical Theories....Pages 421-431
Why the World is a Quantum World....Pages 433-444
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
On the Determinism of Hidden Variable Theories with Strict Correlation and Conditional Statistical Independence of Observables....Pages 445-455
Back Matter....Pages 457-548

✦ Subjects


Philosophy of Science; Logic; Statistics, general


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