Decoherence and Probability.
One cannot justifiably presuppose the physical salience of structures derived via decoherence theory based upon an entirely uninterpreted use of the quantum formalism. Non-probabilistic accounts of the emergence of probability via decoherence are unconvincing. An alternative account of the emergence...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 93; no. 1; pp. 143 - 170 |
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Cambridge University Press
Jan2026
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