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Квантово-логически и конструктивен подход към микросвета
A Quantum Logic and Constructive Approach to the Micro-world

Author(s): Angel S. Stefanov
Subject(s): Philosophy, Logic, Special Branches of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: quantum mechanics; quantum logical approach; constructive approach; non-classical theories; micro-world;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to reveal the epistemological pretensions and possibilities of the two general approaches to providing understanding of the strange behavior of the quantum objects. The first one is quantum logical, the other is theoretical-and constructive one. It has been shown that quantum logic based on the basic mathematical structure of quantum mechanics, the Hilbert space, demonstrates the empirical adequacy of this first theory about the micro-world. However, quantum logic refers to the empirical level of the behavior of quantum objects. It provides us with knowledge how they behave in different experimental situations, but remains silent about why they behave in this way, and not in another one. The latter knowledge could be principally reached through the theoretic-and-constructive approach. It exploits classical logic, but its results are non-classical theoretical models of quantum objects.

  • Issue Year: XXIX/2020
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 5-14
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Bulgarian