Carmen SÁNCHEZ-OVCHAROV, Karim GHERAB-MARTÍN, J.A.F. CUESTA ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper is to carry out a critical analysis of the uses of the material conditionals employed to represent the counterfactual detections taking place inside Elitzur-Vaidman quantum bomb detectors in so-called quantum interaction free measurements (IFMs). We provide an exhaustive philosophical study of this classical approach focusing on its limitations. …
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SEMANTIC EPISTEMOLOGY REDUX: PROOF AND VALIDITY IN QUANTUM MECHANICS (pages 287-303)
Arnold CUSMARIU ABSTRACT: Definitions I presented in a previous article as part of a semantic approach in epistemology assumed that the concept of derivability from standard logic held across all mathematical and scientific disciplines. The present article argues that this assumption is not true for quantum mechanics (QM) by showing that concepts of validity applicable to proofs in mathematics and in …
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Logos and episteme