How to Make Sense of Quantum Mechanics : Fundamental Physical Theories and Primitive Ontology

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Quantum mechanics has always been regarded as, at best, puzzling, if not contradictory. The aim of the paper is to explore a particular approach to fundamental physical theories, the one based on the notion of primitive ontology. This approach, when applied to quantum mechanics, makes it a paradox-free theory

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Valia Allori
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