Laws of nature and the reality of the wave function.
In this paper I review three different positions on the wave function, namely: nomological realism, dispositionalism, and configuration space realism by regarding as essential their capacity to account for the world of our experience. I conclude that the first two positions are committed to regard t...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 192; no. 10; pp. 3179 - 3202 |
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