Common Sense and a “Wigner-Dirac” Approach to Quantum Mechanics

The Monist 80 (1):131-159 (1997)
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This paper presents a case for the thesis that quantum mechanics is compatible with common sense. I make this case by exhibiting a Wignerian formulation of quantum mechanics and a neo-Dirackian interpretation of quantum mechanics thus formulated. Together these reconcile quantum mechanics with some common-sense theses, which might seem to be violated by quantum mechanics.

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10.5840/monist19978014

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